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Quote by Bertrand Russell
There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge. - Bert

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge. – Bertrand Russell

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Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear. – Bertrand Russell

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I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world. – Bertrand Russell

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This required the development of a view which allowed one to integrate research with belief, thing with person, fact with aesthetics, knowledge with application of knowledge. – Kenneth L. Pike

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Throughout the past, there has been a lack of intimacy, affection, and regard for Islam by Christianity. This, to a large extent, has been due to a lack of knowledge of the great human and spiritual ideals for which Islam and the teachings of Islam stand. – Aly Khan

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I would rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent than in the extent of my powers and dominion. – Alexander the Great

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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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