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I think it will be found that experience, the true source and foun

I think it will be found that experience, the true source and foundation of all knowledge, invariably confirms its truth. – Thomas Malthus

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In a state therefore of great equality and virtue, where pure and simple manners prevailed, the increase of the human species would evidently be much greater than any increase that has been hitherto known. – Thomas Malthus

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Equality
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The superior power of population cannot be checked without producing misery or vice. – Thomas Malthus

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power
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I do not know that any writer has supposed that on this earth man will ultimately be able to live without food. – Thomas Malthus

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Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within. – Ralph Cudworth

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The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge. – Albert Einstein

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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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Lawrence Ferlinghetti had a tremendous education as an artist and also an enormous knowledge of literarture. – David Amram

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The way of paradoxes is the way of truth. To test Reality we must see it on the tight-rope. When the Verities become acrobats we can judge them. – Oscar Wilde

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Run to meet the future or its going to run you down. – Anthony J. DAngelo

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