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" Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge. "
Plato
Knowledge
Main
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" Over time, naturally, you lose your innocence from gaining knowledge. You can't be innocent forever, but there's something in innocence you need to regain to be creative. "
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" Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality. "
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" The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life. "
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Direction
" States are as the men, they grow out of human characters. "
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Grow
" Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom. "
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Without
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" There is no such thing as a lovers' oath. "
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" Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments. "
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" I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work. "
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Doing
" The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge. "
Daniel J. Boorstin
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" Knowledge is power. "
Francis Bacon
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Power
" The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort. "
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Me
Always
Action
" A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle. "
Khalil Gibran
Worth
Knowledge
Idle
" The measure of a man is what he does with power. "
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Man
Measure
Measure Of A Man
" Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery. "
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Excess
Lies
Only
" I and my colleagues here have been engaged in the pursuit of knowledge. "
Frederick Sanger
Here
Been
Colleagues
" Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance. "
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Opinion
Knowledge
Ignorance
" The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty. "
James Madison
True
Guardian
Knowledge
" For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions. "
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Kind
Political
New
" The end of all knowledge should be service to others. "
Cesar Chavez
Should
End
Knowledge
" Twice and thrice over, as they say, good is it to repeat and review what is good. "
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Over
They Say
Twice
" Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. "
Immanuel Kant
Wisdom
Science
Life
" Knowledge is love and light and vision. "
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Light
Love
Vision
" Hardly any human being is capable of pursuing two professions or two arts rightly. "
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Arts
Capable
Two
" We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible; and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise. "
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Earth
Heaven
Wise
" Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death? "
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Things
Up
All Things
" No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory. "
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Man
Memory
Study
" The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge. "
Albert Einstein
Me
Talent
Positive
" The gods' service is tolerable, man's intolerable. "
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Service
Intolerable
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