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

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Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear. – Horace Mann

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Death
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If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both. – Horace Mann

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Truth
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Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false. – Charles Caleb Colton

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We are least open to precise knowledge concerning the things we are most vehement about. – Eric Hoffer

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Einsteins results again turned the tables and now very few philosophers or scientists still think that scientific knowledge is, or can be, proven knowledge. – Imre Lakatos

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A number of scientists with greatly different backgrounds can come up with completely different assessments. The discussions or controversies are endless. Once a year, we try to bring the most important discoverers together to exchange their experiences and knowledge. – Richard Leakey

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I have always maintained that society has no business dictating morality. – Peter Fonda

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An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think. – G. W. F. Hegel

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