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Knowledge is recognition of something absent it is a salutation, n

Knowledge is recognition of something absent it is a salutation, not an embrace. – George Santayana

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I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads. – George Santayana

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Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world. – George Santayana

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Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty. – Jacob Bronowski

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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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If we would have new knowledge, we must get a whole world of new questions. – Susanne K. Langer

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A man can only attain knowledge with the help of those who possess it. This must be understood from the very beginning. One must learn from him who knows. – George Gurdjieff

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Short sentences drawn from long experience. – Miguel de Cervantes

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My attitude is that if you push me towards something that you think is a weakness, then I will turn that perceived weakness into a strength. – Michael Jordan

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In corn, I think Ive found the key to the American food chain. If you look at a fast-food meal, a McDonalds meal, virtually all the carbon in it – and what we eat is mostly carbon – comes from corn. – Michael Pollan

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