I think we risk becoming the ...

I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance.
I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance.
 Ruben Blades

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If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.
I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

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I think being born in Panama was a blessing because Panama is a port city. It's a really - the mentality is that - I remember that of admitting things in. You know, ports, ideas come in and out all the time.
 Ruben Blades
I was a kid, and I remember my mother singing. She was also a radio soap opera actress, but my mother sang.
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What I do not accept is the fact that so many people's talents were ripped off.
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