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Learn from me, if not by my precepts, then by my example, how dang

Learn from me, if not by my precepts, then by my example, how dangerous is the pursuit of knowledge and how much happier is that man who believes his native town to be the world than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow. – Mary Wollstonecraft

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Make women rational creatures, and free citizens, and they will quickly become good wives – that is, if men do not neglect the duties of husbands and fathers. – Mary Wollstonecraft

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Taught from infancy that beauty is womans sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison. – Mary Wollstonecraft

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The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it. – Laurence Sterne

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Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge. – Stephen Hawking

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I would like to have the superpower of being able to touch a book and then gain all the knowledge out of that book without spending hours and days reading it. – Nicholas Brendon

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The deductive method is the mode of using knowledge, and the inductive method the mode of acquiring it. – Henry Mayhew

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I cant say that Ive changed anybodys life, ever, and thats the real work of the world, if you want a better society. – Charles Kuralt

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Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parade. – Philip James Bailey

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