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What guides Marxism, then, is a different model of society, and a

What guides Marxism, then, is a different model of society, and a different conception of the function of the knowledge that can be produced by society and acquired from it. – Jean-Francois Lyotard

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Our working hypothesis is that the status of knowledge is altered as societies enter what is known as the postindustrial age and cultures enter what is known as the postmodern age. – Jean-Francois Lyotard

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One can decide that the principal role of knowledge is as an indispensable element in the functioning of society, and act in accordance with that decision, only if one has already decided that society is a giant machine. – Jean-Francois Lyotard

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Exclusively oral cultures are unencumbered by dead knowledge, dead facts. Libraries, on the other hand, are full of them. – Huston Smith

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And Im walking along and were laughing, kidding, joking, and see he understood the leader, the one we called the leader, had some knowledge of English, although limited. – Betty Hill

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Western civilization, unfortunately, does not link knowledge and morality but rather, it connects knowledge and power and makes them equivalent. – Vine Deloria, Jr.

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Many people make the mistake of confusing information with knowledge. They are not the same thing. Knowledge involves the interpretation of information. Knowledge involves listening. – Henning Mankell

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