When ignorance is bliss, there's folly in wisdom. - David Eddings

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Pardon me, but there’s someone on the phone who says they have a call for you. ” There’s a call to tell me I have a call?” he asked with heavy skepticism.

David Eddings

When ignorance is bliss, there's folly in wisdom.

Bliss, Folly, Ignorance, Ignorance Is Bliss, Wisdom

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Once you've decided that something's absolutely true, you've closed your mind on it, and a closed mind doesn't go anywhere. Question everything. That's what education's all about.

Closed, Closed Mind, Everything, Mind, True, True You

We're living in momentous times, Garion. The events of a thousand years and more have all focused on these very days. The world, I'm told, is like that. Centuries pass when nothing happens, and then in a few short years events of such tremendous importance take place that the world is never the same again. " I think that if I had my choice, I'd prefer one of those quiet centuries," Garion said glumly. Oh, no," Silk said, his lips drawing back in a ferretlike grin. "Now's the time to be alive - to see it all happen, to be a part of it. That makes the blood race, and each breath is an adventure.

Adventure, Drawing, Events, Importance, Think, Thinking

But there's a world beyond what we can see and touch, and that world lives by its own laws. What may be impossible in this very ordinary world is very possible there, and sometimes the boundaries between the two worlds disappear, and then who can say what is possible and impossible?

Law, Laws, Ordinary World, Possible, Possible And Impossible, See

I've looked at the world for quite a few years now and I've found that if I don't laugh, I'll probably end up crying. " - Prince Kheldar of Drasnia

Kheldar, Laughing, Looked, Probably, World, Years

One of the less attractive aspects of human nature is our tendency to hate the people we haven't treated very well; it's much easier than accepting guilt. If we can convince ourselves that the people we betrayed or enslaved were subhuman monsters in the first place, then our guilt isn't nearly so black as we secretly know that it is. Humans are very, very good at shifting blame and avoiding guilt.

Acceptance, Avoiding, Betrayal, Good, Hate, Secretly

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Philip Yancey

Jesus is the best clue we have as to what God is like and He is consistently gracious and merciful, especially to those who are failures. He is harsh to uptight, judgmental people, but merciful and gracious to the failures. He seems to draw out the smallest kernel of faith in each person that He's with. So, I presume that that's the way God is going to judge humanity.

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Edward Young

Where boasting ends, there dignity begins.

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Deng Xiaoping

In the last couple of years before Chairman Mao's death he said that the "Cultural Revolution" had been wrong on two counts: one was "overthrowing all", and the other was waging a "full-scale civil war". These two counts alone show that the "Cultural Revolution" cannot be called correct. Chairman Mao's mistake was a political mistake, and not a small one.

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Jeaniene Frost

Pardon me, but there’s someone on the phone who says they have a call for you. ” There’s a call to tell me I have a call?” he asked with heavy skepticism.

Asked, Call, Heavy, Pardon Me, Phones, Skepticism

Leslie Nielsen

I've always been part of comedy. One of the things about our family was that if we were reasonably funny with each other, particularly my two brothers and myself, when my father was upset with something you'd want to make sure in some way you made him laugh. Because when he didn't laugh, you were in trouble!

Brother, Comedy, Father, Funny Things, Make, Way