Quote by George Eliot
Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down. -

Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down. – George Eliot

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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns. – George Eliot

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The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side. – James A. Baldwin

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In the present state of our knowledge, it would be useless to attempt to speculate on the remote cause of the electrical energy… its relation to chemical affinity is, however, sufficiently evident. May it not be identical with it, and an essential property of matter? – Humphry Davy

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Where is all the knowledge we lost with information? – T. S. Eliot

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Surely, if knowledge is valuable, it can never be good policy in a country far wealthier than Tuscany, to allow a genius like Mr. Daltons, to be employed in the drudgery of elementary instruction. – Charles Babbage

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Every law is an infraction of liberty. – Jeremy Bentham

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Grades were important in our house. I was reading by two. My mom would sit there and read with me, read with me, read with me. It was wonderful. – Fergie

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Its very clear that theres a lot of double standards going on. Should there be a 30mph speed limit? Of course there bloody should. And certainly with kids and school food, kids need to be nannied for sure. So give them a bloody good meal at school. – Jamie Oliver

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