We must abandon completely the naive faith that school automatically liberates the mind and serves the cause of human progress; in fact, we kn...
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I was so naive as a kid I used to sneak behind the barn and do nothing.
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The general thrust these days is: Oh, come on, it's all in the past, nobody's interested any more, it didn't work, everyone knows what the Americans are like, but stop being naive, this is the world, there's nothing to be done about it and anyway fuck it, who cares? But let me put it this way-the dead are still looking at us, waiting for us to acknowledge our part in their murder.
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I'm not naive. I realise that quality of life and income are inextricably bound together, but sooner or later we're going to have to ask ourselves whether it is possible to make life more meaningful without charging it to Visa.
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I feel like I can handle a lot of things. I can handle a parasitic infection and separating lesions, arterial sclerosis. But this stuff...I just want to go through life thinking people are happy, naive as that may sound.
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If you are prepared to accept the consequences of your dreams then you must still regard America today with the same naive enthusiasm as the generations that discovered the New World.
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We want a president who is as much like an American tourist as possible. Someone with the same goofy grin, the same innocent intentions, the same naive trust; a president with no conception of foreign policy and no discernible connection to the U.S. government, whose Nice Guyism will narrow the gap between the U.S. and us until nobody can tell the difference.
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Who wants always to look at a cafe or an altar or an oak tree with the first innocence and the limited understanding of a naive lovesick girl,...
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He attacked everything in life with a mix of extrordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.
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A cheese may disappoint. It may be dull, it may be naive, it may be oversophisticated. Yet it remains cheese, milk's leap toward immortality.
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The stupid neither forgive or forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.
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If you think that any human system of justice is infallible, then you are ignorant. If you think that no person has been falsely condemned to death, then you are naive. If you think that even one innocent person, ripped from heir life and their passion and to put to death at the hands of the state is in any way justifiable, then you are evil.
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Dare to be naive.
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Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.
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The stupid neither forgive nor forget the naive forgive and forget the wise forgive but do not forget.
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It would be naive to think that the problems plaguing mankind today can be solved with means and methods which were applied or seemed to work in the past. . .
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I did feel a little bit of guilt for what happened, but I didn't ask for that. I am not a criminal, even though when I stepped out of this room yesterday, I felt like one. But all I ask is for my life to be normal again -- but I'm not naive and stupid and think this is going to happen in the next few days.
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Philosophers say a great deal about what is absolutely necessary for science, and it is always, so far as one can see, rather naive, and probably wrong.
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It would be inappropriate for me to assume they still have weapons of mass destruction, but at the same time, it would be naive to exclude that possibility,
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The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.
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It would be naive to think that peace and justice can be achieved easily. No set of rules or study of history will automatically resolve the p...
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Cynicism is full of naive disappointments.
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It is well for the heart to be naive and the mind not to be.
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