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Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man. - William Penn

Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man. – William Penn

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The tallest Trees are most in the Power of the Winds, and Ambitious Men of the Blasts of Fortune. – William Penn

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A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably. – William Penn

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This persistence as private firms continued because it ensured the maximum of anonymity and secrecy to persons of tremendous public power who dreaded public knowledge of their activities as an evil almost as great as inflation. – Carroll Quigley

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Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge it is thinking that makes what we read ours. – John Locke

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Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them. – Lord Chesterfield

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The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance – it is the illusion of knowledge. – Daniel J. Boorstin

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We are on the precipice of climate system tipping points beyond which there is no redemption. – James Hansen

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Good acting is all in the writing. If it isnt on the page, then it really wont make any difference. You cannot act on force of personality alone. – Larry Hagman

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Mr. [Thomas] Gray the poet has often observed to me that if a man were to form a Book of what he had seen and heard himself it must in whatever hands prove a most useful and entertaining one. – Horace Walpole, quoted in Walpoliana, 1800

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I hate to say it, but the truth is that the upscale line is where I get respect as a designer. The higher the price range, the higher the respect level from the industry, even though its much easier to make a great $500 dress than a great $100 dress. – Betsey Johnson

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