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The Difference Between Ignorant And Educated People Is That The Latter Know More Facts. But That Has Nothing To Do With Whether They Are Stupid Or Intelligent. The Difference Between Stupid And Intelligent People-and This Is True Whether Or Not They Are Well-educated-is That Intelligent People Can Handle Subtlety. They Are Not Baffled By Ambiguous Or Even Contradictory Situations-in Fact, They Expect Them And Are Apt To Become Suspicious When Things Seem Overly Straightforward.

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Michael Moore

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The Difference Between Ignorant And Educated People Is That The Latter Know More Facts. But That Has Nothing To Do With Whether They Are Stupid Or Intelligent. The Difference Between Stupid And Intelligent People-and This Is True Whether Or Not They Are Well-educated-is That Intelligent People Can Handle Subtlety. They Are Not Baffled By Ambiguous Or Even Contradictory Situations-in Fact, They Expect Them And Are Apt To Become Suspicious When Things Seem Overly Straightforward.

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I'll Tell You Who Doesn't Have Any Personal Responsibility. Companies Like General Electric And Others Who Pay Absolutely No Income Tax.

The Upper 1 Percent, The People Down On Wall Street, The Corporate Executives, They're The People That Control This Economy.

Capitalism Is An Organized System To Guarantee That Greed Becomes The Primary Force Of Our Economic System And Allows The Few At The Top To Get Very Wealthy And Has The Rest Of Us Riding Around Thinking We Can Be That Way, Too - If We Just Work Hard Enough, Sell Enough Tupperware And Amway Products, We Can Get A Pink Cadillac.

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The Worst Way To Defend Our Freedom Is To Let Our Leaders Start Taking Away Our Freedoms! It Is Exactly During Times Like These [a National Crisis] That We Need More Freedom Of Speech, A Strong And Critical Press, And A Citizenry That Is Not Afraid To Stand Up And Say That The Emperor Has No Clothes.

There Should Be No Private Health Insurance Companies Operating For Profit.

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Openness, Transparency - These Are Among The Few Weapons The Citizenry Has To Protect Itself From The Powerful And The Corrupt... And That Is The Best Thing That Wikileaks Has Done.

I Was One Of The First 18-year-olds In The United States Elected To Public Office Right After 18-year-olds Got The Right To Vote Back In The Early '70s. I Ran For The Board Of Education.

Filmmakers And Artists Always Thrive During More Liberal Times.

I Think People Should Start To Practice The Words 'president Romney.'

I Don't Want To Involve Myself In The Various Arguments About Why Israel Was Created . . . . . I Want To Deal With The Situation At Hand Which Is The Ongoing Killing On Both Sides. . . . . . . It's True That There's Also Much Oppression Of Palestinians In Arab Countries, Where Palestinians Aren't Allowed To Vote Or Own Property And Are Treated As Second Class Citizens And Pawns In The Fight Against Israel. But I'm Not Going To Spend My Time On This Since There Is Isn't A Whole Lot I Can Do About It.

I Respect The Fact That People Have Worked Hard All Week And Want To Go To The Movies On The Weekend And Be Entertained.

You Can't Regulate Child Labor. You Can't Regulate Slavery. Some Things Are Just Wrong.

The Days Of Using My Name As A Pejorative Are Now Over. The Right Wing Turned Me Into An Accidental Spokesperson For The Liberal, Majority Agenda.

Any Time You Got The Pope And The Dixie Chicks Against You, Your Time Is Up.

I Remember The First Time I Received A Cassette Tape Of A Band Called The Clash. I Became An Instant Fan Of The Clash And Then Bought Their Albums After That And Went To Their Concerts And Gave Them My Money... But I First Got It For Free.

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