Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.Will Durant
India was the mother of our race and Sanskrit the mother of Europe's languages. She was the mother of our philosophy, mother through the Arabs, of much of our mathematics, mother through Buddha, of the ideals embodied in Christianity, mother through village communities of self-government and democracy. Mother India is in many ways the mother of us all.
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One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
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