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Perhaps the prevalence of pedantry may be largely accounted for by

Perhaps the prevalence of pedantry may be largely accounted for by the common error of thinking that, because useful knowledge should be remembered, any kind of knowledge that is at all worth learning should be remembered too. – Albert J. Nock

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Personal law is simply the thought that controls your mind and your life more than any other thought. Finding that thought is the most valuable knowledge that you can have about yourself. It is like the leverage on personal change. It enables you to change very efficiently. – Leonard Orr

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We have today a fairly thorough knowledge of the early Greco-Roman period because our motivations are the same. – Arthur Erickson

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A man of knowledge chooses a path with a heart and follows it and then he looks and rejoices and laughs and then he sees and knows. – Carlos Castenada

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Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge. – Isaac Bashevis Singer

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Abstract Expressionism – the first American movement to have a worldwide influence – was remarkably short-lived: It heated up after World War II and was all but done for by 1960 (although visit any art school today and youll find a would-be Willem de Kooning). – Jerry Saltz

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