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Many people make the mistake of confusing information with knowled

Many people make the mistake of confusing information with knowledge. They are not the same thing. Knowledge involves the interpretation of information. Knowledge involves listening. – Henning Mankell

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I am not afraid of dying. I have lived longer than most people in the world. What scares me is to have a body that works but a brain that is waving goodbye. If that happens, I hope I die quickly. – Henning Mankell

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Sweden is still a very peaceful country to live in. I think that people in Britain have created this mythology about Sweden, that its a perfect democratic society full of erotically charged girls. – Henning Mankell

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Normally street children are shown in terms of the tragedy of their lives – which is true – but theres also another dimension: their wisdom, dignity and enormous capacity for survival. – Henning Mankell

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Scientific discovery and scientific knowledge have been achieved only by those who have gone in pursuit of it without any practical purpose whatsoever in view. – Max Planck

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Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not. – Carl Jung

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