Quote by Carroll Quigley
This persistence as private firms continued because it ensured the

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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The history of the last century shows, as we shall see later, that the advice given to governments by bankers, like the advice they gave to industrialists, was consistently good for bankers, but was often disastrous for governments, businessmen, and the people generally. – Carroll Quigley

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The failure of Christianity in the areas west from Sicily was even greater, and was increased by the spread of Arab outlooks and influence to that area, and especially to Spain. – Carroll Quigley

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The traditional Christian attitude toward human personality was that human nature was essentially good and that it was formed and modified by social pressures and training. – Carroll Quigley

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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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You make knowledge relevant to life and you make it important for children to learn things that will really relate to things going on in their lives, and not abstract. – Talib Kweli

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Because in the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, how to speak by silence, how to live by dying. – Johannes Tauler

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Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom. – Plato

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