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Quote by Joseph Addison
The utmost extent of mans knowledge, is to know that he knows noth

The utmost extent of mans knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing. – Joseph Addison

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A mans first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart, and his next to escape the censures of the world. – Joseph Addison

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Censorship
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If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius. – Joseph Addison

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Experience
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If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. He has a heart capable of mirth, and naturally disposed to it. – Joseph Addison

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I think in the NFL knowledge is power, and you try to get the knowledge by whatever means. – Steve Sabol

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Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge. – Carl Sagan

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I have always liked the idea of going to print because a big part of what we are about is to disseminate knowledge throughout the world and not just to people who have broadband. – Jimmy Wales

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Its clear that people are going to download media files, and theyre going to talk to each other, and theyre going to exchange information and knowledge and so forth. So this system logic is basically what you bounce off of. – Michael Nesmith

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Tyrants seldom want pretexts. – Edmund Burke

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