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Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly raises one person a

Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly raises one person above another. – Joseph Addison

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Prejudice and self-sufficiency naturally proceed from inexperience of the world, and ignorance of mankind. – Joseph Addison

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Prejudice
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The circumstance which gives authors an advantage above all these great masters, is this, that they can multiply their originals; or rather, can make copies of their works, to what number they please, which shall be as valuable as the originals themselves. – Joseph Addison

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Authors & Writing
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If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling. – Joseph Addison

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Argument & Debate
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Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college. – Lillian Smith

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To remove this obstacle I repeat or refer to such knowledge as has come under my notice, my own previously expressed views, and also describe and exhibit my last experiments and explain their novelty and utility. – Lawrence Hargrave

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Knowledge

Each co-operative institution will become a school of business in which each member will acquire a knowledge of the laws of trade and commerce. – Leland Stanford

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Like all science, psychology is knowledge and like science again, it is knowledge of a definite thing, the mind. – James M. Baldwin

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Its a good question, because a movie isnt good or bad based on its politics. Its usually good or bad for other reasons, though you might agree or disagree with its politics. – Roger Ebert

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Forty-five States, as the gentleman just said, have determined by people that were elected by the people of that State that marriage is the definition of one man and one woman. – Randy Neugebauer

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Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only. – Samuel Butler, Erewhon

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One of the things in the back of my mind is that, after my sports experience, I never want to be, totally consumed by any one endeavor, other than my family life. – Julius Erving

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