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The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall the desire

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

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It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a mans self. – Francis Bacon

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It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody elses skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too. – Frederick Buechner

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The accumulation of cultural capital – the acquisition of knowledge – is the key to social mobility. – Michael Gove

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To express the same idea in still another way, I think that human knowledge is essentially active. – Jean Piaget

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