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The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall the desire of knowledge caused men to fall. – Francis Bacon

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Suspicion amongst thoughts are like bats amongst birds, they never fly by twilight. – Francis Bacon

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Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council though good in execution. – Francis Bacon

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The intellectual takes as a starting point his self and relates the world to his own sensibilities the scientist accepts an existing field of knowledge and seeks to map out the unexplored terrain. – Daniel Bell

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Well, the truth is always what should be told. And the truth and the knowledge of the truth is what everybody should represent, regardless of the consequences of doing it. – Johnny Isakson

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A lot of knowledge in any kind of an organization is what we call task knowledge. These are things that people who have been there a long time understand are important, but they may not know how to talk about them. Its often called the culture of the organization. – Howard Gardner

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