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If they exert it not for good, they will for evil if they advance

If they exert it not for good, they will for evil if they advance not knowledge, they will perpetuate ignorance. – Frances Wright

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These will vary in every human being but knowledge is the same for every mind, and every mind may and ought to be trained to receive it. – Frances Wright

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Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them. – Lord Chesterfield

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Knowledge is not simply another commodity. On the contrary. Knowledge is never used up. It increases by diffusion and grows by dispersion. – Daniel J. Boorstin

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Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes. – Peter Drucker

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The world does not look to us in the Arab world out of a healthy desire for knowledge. – Tahar Ben Jelloun

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