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The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it. -

The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it. – John Locke

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As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears. – John Locke

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Time
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John Locke
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Our incomes are like our shoes if too small, they gall and pinch us but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip. – John Locke

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finance
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John Locke
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One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use neither his knowledge nor wealth when the need for them arises. – Chanakya

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Knowledge

The function of the politician, therefore, is one of continuous watchfulness and activity, and he must have intimate knowledge of details if he would work out grand results. – John George Nicolay

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Knowledge

Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use. – Thomas J. Watson

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Knowledge

Most North Americans know that human-caused global warming is real, even if political leaders dont always reflect or act on that knowledge. – David Suzuki

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Adultery is the application of democracy to love. – Henry Louis Mencken, “Sententiae,” A Book of Burlesques, 1920

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The cosmos is about the smallest hole that a man can hide his head in. – G. K. Chesterton

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Nevertheless, the consuming hunger of the uncritical mind for what it imagines to be certainty or finality impels it to feast upon shadows in the prevailing famine of substance. – E. T. Bell

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