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The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an

The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side. – James A. Baldwin

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Perhaps as good a classification as any of the main types is that of the three lusts distinguished by traditional Christianity – the lust of knowledge, the lust of sensation, and the lust of power. – Irving Babbitt

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This persistence as private firms continued because it ensured the maximum of anonymity and secrecy to persons of tremendous public power who dreaded public knowledge of their activities as an evil almost as great as inflation. – Carroll Quigley

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Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing. – John Locke

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If no other knowledge deserves to be called useful but that which helps to enlarge our possessions or to raise our station in society, then Mythology has no claim to the appellation. – Thomas Bulfinch

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