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My whole life, I had been taught to read and study, to seek unders

My whole life, I had been taught to read and study, to seek understanding in knowledge of history, of cultures. – Meghan ORourke

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But there is a discomfort that surrounds grief. It makes even the most well-intentioned people unsure of what to say. And so many of the freshly bereaved end up feeling even more alone. – Meghan ORourke

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alone
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Grief is a bad moon, a sleeper wave. Its like having an inner combatant, a saboteur who, at the slightest change in the sunlight, or at the first notes of a jingle for a dog food commercial, will flick the memory switch, bringing tears to your eyes. – Meghan ORourke

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Food
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My mother died of metastatic colorectal cancer shortly before three P.M. on Christmas Day of 2008. I dont know the exact time of her death, because none of us thought to look at a clock for a while after she stopped breathing. – Meghan ORourke

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Christmas
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Einsteins results again turned the tables and now very few philosophers or scientists still think that scientific knowledge is, or can be, proven knowledge. – Imre Lakatos

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Knowledge

A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge. – Peter Drucker

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Knowledge

Where is all the knowledge we lost with information? – T. S. Eliot

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Knowledge

Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom. – Will Durant

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Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice. – Francis Bacon

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The 80s seem a real positive force. The 70s were deadening, in a lot of ways. – Paul Kantner

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positive

They kill good trees to put out bad newspapers. – James G. Watt, quoted in Newsweek, 8 March 1982

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Let us now set forth one of the fundamental truths about marriage: the wife is in charge. – Bill Cosby

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