“The increased global linkages promote economic growth in the world through two key mechanisms: the division of labor and the international spillovers of knowledge.”
— Toshihiko Fukui
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“True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.”
— Baltasar Gracian
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“If they exert it not for good, they will for evil; if they advance not knowledge, they will perpetuate ignorance.”
— Frances Wright
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“Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.”
— Lord Chesterfield
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“The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.”
— Elbert Hubbard
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“We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.”
— H. L. Mencken
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“Science is organized knowledge.”
— Herbert Spencer
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“It is true that the aristocracies seem to have abused their monopoly of legal knowledge; and at all events their exclusive possession of the law was a formidable impediment to the success of those popular movements which began to be universal in the western world.”
— Henry James Sumner Maine
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“Heroes to me are guys that sit in libraries. They absorb knowledge and then the risks they take are calculated on the basis of the courage it took to become replete with knowledge.”
— William Hurt
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“Probability is expectation founded upon partial knowledge. A perfect acquaintance with all the circumstances affecting the occurrence of an event would change expectation into certainty, and leave nether room nor demand for a theory of probabilities.”
— George Boole
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“Building technical systems involves a lot of hard work and specialized knowledge: languages and protocols, coding and debugging, testing and refactoring.”
— Jesse James Garrett
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