"Where ignorance is not bliss, get wise!"

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Source : George Ade (1920). “Hand-made Fables”

George Ade

#Wise Quotes #Ignorance Quotes #Bliss Quotes

“Do you know how many houses all of the nonprofits have built? No more than 5,000 in five years. Do you know how many we lost? Two hundred thousand”

Source : "Landrieu blasts Beck" by Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. August 29, 2010.
“There is as yet no civilized society, but only a society in the process of becoming civilized. There is as yet no civilized nation, but only nations in the process of becoming civilized. From this standpoint, we can now speak of a collective task of humankind. The task of humanity is to build a genuine civilization.”
“I'm a songwriter who's put my childhood memories and teenage angst into songs.”
“Nixon is a strong leader with a good grasp of the world's problems. He knows that the only way to argue with the communists is from a position of strength.”
“No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.”

Source : 1967 In Partisan Review, Summer issue.
“Enthusiasm is ever a gracious, pardonable thing, because in its essentials are youth and zeal and all high, white-hot qualities whose roots strike not in the base earth.”

Source : Katherine Cecil Thurston (2008). “Max (EasyRead Large Edition)”, p.358, ReadHowYouWant.com
“We have to lie to ourselves as decathletes and say that we like all ten events.”

Source : "Gold Medalist Bryan Clay Goes Beyond Reason for Games". Interview with Moira Lawler, www.menshealth.com. April 23, 2012.
“Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.”

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