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> [“Was he the only one who was just old enough to speak out, not yet so old and jaded that he acceded…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wildbow/was-he-the-only-one-who-was-just-old-enough-to-speak-out-not-yet-so/)

[wildbow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wildbow/)

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> [The age of ignorance commenced with the Christian system.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-paine/the-age-of-ignorance-commenced-with-the-christian-system/)

[Thomas Paine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-paine/)

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> [The past was still a Golden Age, of ignorance, while the present is an Iron Age of willful bliss.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jared-diamond/the-past-was-still-a-golden-age-of-ignorance-while-the-present-is-an/)

[Jared Diamond](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jared-diamond/)

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> [The Age of Information, Has turned out to be the Age of Ignorance.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-crispin-miller/the-age-of-information-has-turned-out-to-be-the-age-of-ignorance/)

[Mark Crispin Miller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-crispin-miller/)

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> [I remembered a time when my grandmother had asked me to explain television to her - the guts, not the funny pictures.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-a-heinlein/i-remembered-a-time-when-my-grandmother-had-asked-me-to-explain/)

[Robert A. Heinlein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-a-heinlein/)

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