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Our civilization has evolved through the continuous adjustment of

Our civilization has evolved through the continuous adjustment of society to the stimulus of new knowledge. – John Boyd Orr

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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge. – Bertrand Russell

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Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only pain we obey. – Marcel Proust

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So long as these kinds of inequalities persist, all of us who are given expensive educations have to live with the knowledge that our victories are contaminated because the game has been rigged to our advantage. – Jonathan Kozol

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I feel like 35. At 35 youre old enough to know something and young enough to look forward to what you can do with the knowledge. So I stayed at 35! – Michael Caine

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