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The most important thing I learned as a foreign correspondent in a

The most important thing I learned as a foreign correspondent in about 80 countries is that it takes a very shallow knowledge of history to think that there are solutions to most problems. – Robert D. Kaplan

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Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite. – Karl Popper

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It is that of increasing knowledge of empirical fact, intimately combined with changing interpretations of this body of fact – hence changing general statements about it – and, not least, a changing a structure of the theoretical system. – Talcott Parsons

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The library is seen as a force for self improvement and the pursuit of knowledge. I fear that in many cases this is no longer true, if it ever was. – John Redwood

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The medieval university looked backwards it professed to be a storehouse of old knowledge. The modern university looks forward, and is a factory of new knowledge. – Thomas Huxley

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Reconciliation requires changes of heart and spirit, as well as social and economic change. It requires symbolic as well as practical action. – Malcolm Fraser

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If you look at the publishers Ive worked with, generally, theyre a great bunch. Creation is unlike any other publishing house you can think of. The people Ive worked with have integrity and intelligence and, almost always, less money than ideas. – Peter Sotos

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