Quote by Frances Wright
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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Religion may be defined thus: a belief in, and homage rendered to, existences unseen and causes unknown. – Frances Wright

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Religion
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How are men to be secured in any rights without instruction how to be secured in the equal exercise of those rights without equality of instruction? By instruction understand me to mean knowledge – just knowledge not talent, not genius, not inventive mental powers. – Frances Wright

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Equality
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Scientific knowledge is a kind of discourse. – Jean-Francois Lyotard

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Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch. – Ivern Ball

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There was the best teachers from the Czech Philharmonic, highly dedicated people, some of the best musicians in the world passing on the knowledge about the country, about the principles, and about the music. – Miroslav Vitous

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Doubt grows with knowledge. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated. – Horace Mann

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Men and women, women and men. It will never work. – Erica Jong

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Jefferson thought schools would produce free men: we prove him right by putting dropouts in jail. – Benjamin R. Barber

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You call to a dog and a dog will break its neck to get to you. Dogs just want to please. Call to a cat and its attitude is, Whats in it for me? – Lewis Grizzard

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