Orts #858

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
     — Martin Luther King, Jr.



Education is the resistance to everything that is bad today.
     — Jonas Mekas, quoted in Want to Be Happy? Think Like an Old Person, by John Leland, New York Times, Dec.29, 2017
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Just as in all feeding there is often the pleasure alone, and not all we take that is pleasant is always nutritious and healthful; so what our mind derives from learning does not fail to be voluptuous even though it be nether nourishing nor salutary.
     — Montaigne, in an essay, Apology for Raymond Sebond
 

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...female sea turtles from the Pacific Ocean's largest and most important green sea turtle rookery now outnumber males by at least 116 to 1
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