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The half minute which we daily devote to the winding-up of our watches is an exertion of labour almost insensible; yet, by…
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The possessors of wealth can scarcely be indifferent to processes which, nearly or remotely have been the fertile source of their possessions.
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Surely, if knowledge is valuable, it can never be good policy in a country far wealthier than Tuscany, to allow a genius…
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It will be readily admitted, that a degree conferred by an university, ought to be a pledge to the public that he…
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To those who have chosen the profession of medicine, a knowledge of chemistry, and of some branches of natural history, and, indeed,…
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On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers…
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Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data at all.
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The difference between a tool and a machine is not capable of very precise distinction; nor is it necessary, in a popular…
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Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day.
— Karen Armstrong
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Real knowledge, like everything else of value, is not to be obtained easily. It must be worked for, studied for, thought for,…
— Thomas Arnold
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The right to know is like the right to live. It is fundamental and unconditional in its assumption that knowledge, like life,…
— George Bernard Shaw
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Many men are stored full of unused knowledge. Like loaded guns that are never fired off, or military magazines in times of…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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A Man of Knowledge like a rich Soil, feeds If not a world of Corn, a world of Weeds.
— Benjamin Franklin
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Remember that accumulated knowledge, like accumulated capital, increases at compound interest: but it differs from the accumulation of capital in this; that…
— Charles Babbage
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Vietnam was an exercise in mistaken idealism Iraq in cynical money-making. And there's no optimism or idealism now -- Americans are tired…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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Knowledge—like a nail—is made load-bearing by being driven in. If it's not driven deep enough, it will break when any weight is…
— Kató Lomb
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