Ignorance is not innocence but sin.
Elizabeth Barret Browning The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
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It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.
Henry David Thoreau Walden
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The arousing of prejudice, pity, anger, and similar emotions has nothing to do with the essential facts, but is merely a personal appeal to the man who is judging the case.
Aristotle The Art of Rhetoric
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It takes less time to do a thing right than it does to explain why you did it wrong.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Franklin Seasons Planner, September 21, 1993
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This is a world of action, and nor for moping and droning in.
Charles Dickens The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
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We have first raised a dust and then complain we cannot see.
Bishop Berkeley The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
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There is no such thing as can't, only won't. If you're qualified, all it takes is a burning desire to accomplish, to make a change. Go forward, go backward. Whatever it takes! But you can't blame other people or society in general. It all comes from your mind. When we do the impossible we realize we are special people.
Jan Ashford Treasury of Women's Quotations
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