Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions withou

Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge. – H. G. Wells

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To that class we may leave it to refine the vernacular dialects of the country, to enrich those dialects with terms of science borrowed from the Western nomenclature, and to render them by degrees fit vehicles for conveying knowledge to the great mass of the population. – Thomas B. Macaulay

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Well, the truth is always what should be told. And the truth and the knowledge of the truth is what everybody should represent, regardless of the consequences of doing it. – Johnny Isakson

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Im one of those women who likes to chat and share knowledge and pass it around. – Jennie Garth

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When time and space and change converge, we find place. We arrive in Place when we resolve things. Place is peace of mind and understanding. Place is knowledge of self. Place is resolution. – Abdullah Ibrahim

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