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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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Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is. – Francis Bacon

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We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do. – Francis Bacon

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Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid. – Francis Bacon

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Love takes up where knowledge leaves off. – Thomas Aquinas

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But now with the living conditions deteriorating, and with the sure knowledge that we are slated for destruction, we have been transformed into an implacable army of liberation. – George Jackson

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The implications of these considerations justify the statement that all empirically verifiable knowledge even the commonsense knowledge of everyday life – involves implicitly, if not explicitly, systematic theory in this sense. – Talcott Parsons

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Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power. – Horace Mann

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Id learned how much happiness money can bring you. Very little. – Rick Pitino

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