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I am inclined to attach some importance to the new system of manufacturing; and venture to throw it out with the hope…
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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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Another mode of accumulating power arises from lifting a weight and then allowing it to fall.
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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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The proportion between the velocity with which men or animals move, and the weights they carry, is a matter of considerable importance,…
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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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A young man passes from our public schools to the universities, ignorant almost of the elements of every branch of useful knowledge.
— Charles Babbage
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In order to the attaining of all useful knowledge this is most necessary, that we fear God; we are not qualified to…
— Matthew Henry
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To make a man happy, fill his hands with work, his heart with affection, his mind with purpose, his memory with useful…
— Frederick E. Crane
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The principal object of your reading should be for the acquisition of useful knowledge , and the strengthening, refining, and ennobling of…
— Grenville Kleiser
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No one has a monopoly on knowledge the way that, say, IBM had in the 1960s in computing, or that Bell Labs…
— Henry Chesbrough
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This [Scientology] is useful knowledge. With it the blind again see, the lame walk, the ill recover, the insane become sane and…
— L. Ron Hubbard
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I do not know what 'moss' stands for in the proverb , but if it stood for useful knowledge... I gathered more…
— Ernest Shackleton
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The best aid to give is intellectual aid, a gift of useful knowledge. A gift of knowledge is infinitely preferable to a…
— E F Schumacher
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