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Seen in someone's sig block on Autocat:

There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."
   --Isaac Asimov (January 21, 1980 column in Newsweek, acto Wikiquote)