There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that “my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”
— Isaac Asimov
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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
— Henry James
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Friends and good manners will carry you where money won’t go.
— Margaret Walker
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What the world needs is more geniuses with humility. There are so few of us left.
— Oscar Levant

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