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“To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.”

“Milton Ashe is not the type to marry a head of hair and a pair of eyes.”

“Creationists don't want equal time, … they want all the time there is.”

“Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.”

“If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.”

“The unwritten motto of United States Robot and Mechanical Men Corp. was well-known: “No employee makes the same mistake twice. He is fired the first time.”

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Music1941

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— Kellyanne Conway

Politics1967

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— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Literature1906–2001

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— Samuel Laman Blanchard

Journalism1804–1845

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