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Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire. – William Penn

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I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again. – William Penn

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Sweetest Day
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William Penn
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Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns. – William Penn

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Learning
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For example, I spent a lot of time with Reagan, both before he ran for governor and when he was running for president. As a print reporter without the cameras, I was able to really test the quality of their minds and their knowledge base. – Robert Scheer

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Knowledge

Once we know of atrocities we cannot remain silent, and knowledge inevitably leads to an urge to protect the innocent. – Azar Nafisi

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Knowledge

Knowledge is the most democratic source of power. – Alvin Toffler

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Knowledge

The universitys business is the conservation of useless knowledge and what the university itself apparently fails to see is that this enterprise is not only noble but indispensable as well, that society can not exist unless it goes on. – Albert J. Nock

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You realize that however much you dont think about death – or think thats for other people – youre just an organism living from day to day. Im just grateful Im here. – Robin Gibb

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Our family life was certainly not intellectual. – Douglass North

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My definition [of a philosopher] is of a man up in a balloon, with his family and friends holding the ropes which confine him to earth and trying to haul him down. – Louisa May Alcott, in Life, Letters, and Journals, ed. E.D. Cheney, 1889

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It is we that are blind, not fortune. – Sir Thomas Browne

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