Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves. (Carl Sagan)

Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves.

Carl Sagan

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