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I think there is no reason for us to bring to Islamism or political Islam the fear and ignorance of Western commentators and their hysterical vocabulary.
Pankaj Mishra
Ignorance
Fear
Political
Islam
Think
Vocabulary
No Reason
Hysterical
Western
Us
Reason
Bring
Ignorance is the failure to discriminate between the permanent and the impermanent, the pure and the impure, bliss and suffering, the Self and the non-Self.
Patanjali
Failure
Ignorance
Suffering
Pure
Self
Between
Bliss
Permanent
Discriminate
Impure
Ignorance of the law is not a valid excuse for accused criminals, and it cannot be an excuse for members of Congress.
Paul Broun
Ignorance
Law
Congress
Valid
Criminals
Members
Excuse
Accused
Cannot
When an individual, a sect, a clique or a nation hates and despises another individual, sect, clique or nation, he or they simply do not know the objects of their hatred. Ignorance is at the bottom of it.
Paul P. Harris
Ignorance
Hatred
Nation
Despises
Hates
Objects
Individual
Bottom
He
Simply
Know
Another
Clique
Nyasaland was the perfect country for a volunteer. It was friendly and destitute; it was small and out-of-the-way. It had all of Africa's problems - poverty, ignorance, disease.
Paul Theroux
Ignorance
Problems
Poverty
Country
Destitute
Small
Perfect
Had
Volunteer
Friendly
Disease
Africa
Mental illnesses are so frightening and there's so much ignorance about them that I think it comforts people to think, 'Oh, well, it happens to these people because they deserve it.'
Pete Earley
Ignorance
People
Think
About
Mental
Well
Because
Comforts
Frightening
Oh
Happens
Them
Much
Illnesses
Deserve
The more Scott Walker campaigns, the more he proves he is not intellectually fit for the office he's seeking. He asserts innocent ignorance on matters he should by now know something about - a way of masking his apparent bigotry.
Richard Cohen
Ignorance
Innocent
Matters
Way
Seeking
About
Something
More
He
Know
Proves
His
Fit
Intellectually
Campaigns
Scott
Walker
Office
Should
Apparent
Now
I've always been cast in authority roles; I think because I have that presence... Comedically, I can play against that pretty well. I enjoy playing that arrogant ignorance. That's one of my favorite games to play in comedy.
Rob Riggle
Ignorance
Comedy
Arrogant
Enjoy
Think
Favorite
Pretty
Cast
Well
Because
Always
Been
Roles
Authority
Against
Games
Play
Presence
Playing
Fullness of knowledge always means some understanding of the depths of our ignorance; and that is always conducive to humility and reverence.
Robert Andrews Millikan
Knowledge
Ignorance
Understanding
Humility
Our
Some
Always
Reverence
Conducive
Depths
Means
Fullness
The inspiration of the Bible depends upon the ignorance of the gentleman who reads it.
Robert Green Ingersoll
Bible
Ignorance
Gentleman
Inspiration
Reads
Depends
Who
Freedom believes in education - the salvation of slavery is ignorance.
Robert Green Ingersoll
Education
Freedom
Ignorance
Salvation
Believes
Slavery
There is no slavery but ignorance.
Robert Green Ingersoll
Ignorance
Slavery
I want to fight poverty and ignorance and give opportunity to those people who are locked out.
Russell Simmons
Ignorance
Fight
People
Opportunity
Poverty
Those
Locked
Out
Give
Want
Who
Politics runs on power and money and on ignorance.
Ry Cooder
Politics
Ignorance
Money
Power
Runs
If you're taught to hate and fear a people or a country, and it works, it's because of your ignorance of that country. You have no contact with it, nor do you know what you're hating and fearing.
Ry Cooder
You
Ignorance
Hate
People
Fear
Country
Hating
Fearing
Contact
Do You Know
Know
Because
Nor
Taught
Your
Works
My family and I held no hatred for those people because we realized they were victims of their own ignorance.
Ryan White
Family
Ignorance
People
Hatred
Own
Those
Because
Were
Victims
Realized
Held
No one should ever say that it was my ignorance if I did or showed forth anything however small according to God's good pleasure; but let this be your conclusion and let it so be thought, that - as is the perfect truth - it was the gift of God.
Saint Patrick
Truth
God
Good
Ignorance
Gift
Thought
Say
Pleasure
Small
Perfect
No-One
Conclusion
However
According
Did
Anything
Forth
Should
Your
Ever
Until you understand a writer's ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
You
Ignorance
Yourself
Understanding
Presume
Writer
Until
Understand
His
Ignorant
Ignorance makes you very bold.
Sergio Ramos
You
Ignorance
Makes
Very
Bold
In Buddhist teaching, ignorance is considered the fundamental cause of violence - ignorance... about the separation of self and other... about the consequences of our actions.
Sharon Salzberg
Ignorance
Cause
Separation
Consequences
Other
Our
Considered
About
Self
Buddhist
Teaching
Actions
Fundamental
Violence
Economic inequality is systemic, and one of the most effective barriers is ignorance about how money works beyond the basics.
Stacey Abrams
Ignorance
Money
Systemic
About
Economic
Beyond
Most
Inequality
How
Effective
Barriers
Works
Basics
It's inevitable that not everyone will like me, and that some will find me annoying. That's fine. All presenters deal with that. What's scary is the ignorance about what having a regional accent means, or indeed doesn't mean. It certainly doesn't equal ignorance.
Steph McGovern
Me
Ignorance
Will
Inevitable
Everyone
Indeed
Find
Fine
Some
About
Scary
Having
Like
Annoying
Equal
Accent
Deal
Regional
Mean
Means
Certainly
The truth is that our race survived ignorance; it is our scientific genius that will do us in.
Stephen Vizinczey
Truth
Ignorance
Truth Is
Genius
Will
Our
Scientific
Survived
Race
Us
This paradox of vision - the genius of youthful ignorance - is nothing new. Had Bill Gates not been in diapers in the early days of computer software, he might have understood that there could never be a market for consumer software - but the 19-year-old Gates went ahead and cofounded Microsoft.
Steven Levy
Ignorance
Genius
Vision
Nothing
Software
Market
Paradox
Could
Computer
Consumer
Never
Had
He
New
Days
Understood
Been
Diapers
Microsoft
Might
Nothing New
Bill
Bill Gates
Youthful
Early
Early Days
Gates
We should not underestimate that: the Chinese people's ignorance. Thousands of years of despotism had been such a poison that their understanding of modern politics is even inferior to that of the black slaves and other immigrants.
Sun Yat-sen
Politics
Ignorance
People
Black
Poison
Understanding
Other
Despotism
Immigrants
Thousands
Thousands Of Years
Had
Underestimate
Been
Years
Inferior
Modern
Chinese
Should
Even
Slaves
Many times, I have been shocked and frightened by human beings. I have experienced delight and revulsion. I have sometimes wanted to forget what I heard, to return to a time when I lived in ignorance. More than once, however, I have seen the sublime in people and wanted to cry.
Svetlana Alexievich
Time
Ignorance
People
Sometimes
Seen
Once
More
Delight
Cry
Return
However
Been
Heard
Sublime
Shocked
Times
Than
Frightened
Forget
Revulsion
Human
Experienced
Wanted
Human Beings
Many
Beings
Lived
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