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"She looks as if butter wouldn't melt in her mouth." – Jonathan Swift, "Polite Conversation" (c. 1738), Dialogue I.
"If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers." – Thomas Pynchon, "Gravity's Rainbow" (1973), p. 251; in relation to Hitler's appointment as Chancellor, the Reichstag Fire, and subsequent March elections.
"There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has 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, Column in…
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