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Quote by Abigail Adams
Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so but she

Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since. – Abigail Adams

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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women. – Abigail Adams

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Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken. – Abigail Adams

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Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could. – Abigail Adams

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The greatest obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, the continents and the ocean was not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge. – Daniel J. Boorstin, The Discoverers

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I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way. – Thomas Jefferson

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Every job leaves its residue, a bit of extra knowledge, a new skill-set. – Joel Edgerton

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Harvard is first and foremost a university and not a consulting operation, and our job here is to teach and to research and to create knowledge on Asia in conjunction and in cooperation with scholars as well as with political, intellectual, and cultural leaders in Asia. – William Kirby

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