“A great many things which in times of lesser knowledge we imagined to be superstitious or useless, prove today on examination to have been of immense value to mankind.”
— Lafcadio Hearn
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“All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.”
— Maurice Maeterlinck
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“Hitherto I have courted Truth with a kind of Romantick Passion, in spite of all Difficulties and Discouragements: for knowledge is thought so unnecessary an Accomplishment for a Woman, that few will give themselves the Trouble to assist us in the Attainment of it.”
— Mary Astell
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“These are tough times and under this Tory-led government many people in Manchester are suffering and getting left behind. If elected I will use all my energy, skills, experience and knowledge to stand up for our communities and get things done for the better.”
— Lucy Powell
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“The most important seed I can sow in this life is my children, and the love and knowledge that I can bestow upon them and the help I can give them.”
— Steven Seagal
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“Here, class attendance is expected and students are required to take notes, which they are tested on. What is missing, it seems to me, is the use of knowledge, the practical training.”
— Harrison Salisbury
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“No part of the world can be truly understood without a knowledge of its garment of vegetation, for this determines not only the nature of the animal inhabitants but also the occupations of the majority of human beings.”
— Ellsworth Huntington
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“G is Grace, the Flaming Star is the Torch of Reason. Those who possess this knowledge are indeed Illuminati.”
— Adam Weishaupt
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“But, in the name of the experimental method and out of our poor knowledge, are we really entitled to claim that everything happens by chance, to the exclusion of all other possibilities?”
— Albert Claude
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“So I think it is common knowledge that Hitchcock had fantasies or whatever you want to call them about his leading ladies.”
— Tippi Hedren
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