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Almost his first words were, "Well, let us go and talk with the poets!" In vain I assured this untamed poet that the "Bards of San Francisco Bay," whom he had so naively saluted, had taken the vows of neither brotherhood nor sisterhood; that they feasted at no common board; flocked not; discoursed with no beaded rills; neither did their skilled hands sweep any strings whatever, and he must, therefore, listen in vain for the seraphic song.
Joaquin Miller
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When I was a boy, I naively thought that this thing called happiness would be something I would wake up to find every day once I could smoke, drink and fornicate.


— Reach for the Ground: the Downhill Struggle of Jeffrey Bernard (Duckworth: London, 2002), p 159

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"Some may think that to affirm dialogue--the encounter of women and men in the world in order to transform the world--is naively and subjectively idealistic. There is nothing, however, more real or concrete than people in the world and with the world, than humans with other humans."

paulo freire

— Chapter 4 (Pedagogia do oprimido (Pedagogy of the Oppressed) (1968, English trans. 1970))

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In today's impoverished dialogue, critiques of liberalism are often naively called "conservative," as if twenty-five hundred years of Western intellectual tradition presented no other alternatives.

camille paglia

— p. vii (Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992))

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