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“If we're able to identify our own ignorance, we can identify someone else's expertise. We learn how to listen to each other. And that is the foundation of human understanding.”
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“Disneyland is a work of love...Drawing up plans and dreaming of what I could do, everything. It was just something I kind of kept playing around with.”
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“A secret is a secret in my mind.”
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“The honours system gets to grade people. Graded grains make finer rice.”
Source : "Sir Humphrey Reveals His Dusty Springfield Side" by Simon Hoggart, www.theguardian.com. April 30, 2004. 
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“We regard as 'scientific' a method based on deep analysis of facts, theories, and views, presupposing unprejudiced, unfearing open discussion and conclusions. The complexity and diversity of all the phenomena of modern life, the great possibilities and dangers linked with the scientific-technical revolution and with a number of social tendencies demand precisely such an approach, as has been acknowledged in a number of official statements.”
Source : Andrei D. Sakharov (1968). “Progress, coexistence, and intellectual freedom”
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“The presence of death annihilates all superstitions. We are the children of death, and it is death that rescues us from the deceptions of life. In the midst of life he calls us and summons us to him.”
Source : Sadegh Hedayat (2010). “The Blind Owl”, p.56, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
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“All revolutions are spiritual at the source. All my activities have the sole purpose of achieving a union of hearts.”
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“They were jet, those wings, as deep as the sky, as black as Eoduin's hair—no, blacker, for they were dull, unoiled. They gave off no sheen in the light, no gleam to the eye. They drank up the light and diminished it: they were wings of pure shadow.”
