"There are some people who want to throw their arms round you simply because it is Christmas there are other people who want to strangle you simply because it is Christmas."
-Robert Staughton Lynd
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"Knowledge is power only if man knows what facts not to bother with.“
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"Most of us can remember a time when a birthday - especially if it was one's own - brightened the world as if a second sun has risen."
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"Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left."
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"One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge."
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"Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long."
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"Belief and knowledge are considered to be two different things. But they are not."
-Stanley Fish
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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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"Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity."
-Abraham Cowley
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"My father was a lawyer and to my best knowledge nobody in my family before had interest in science."
-George Andrew Olah
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"Melville brought to the task a sound knowledge of actual whaling, much curious learning in the literature of the subject, and, above all, an imagination which worked with great power upon the facts of his own experience."
-Carl Clinton Van Doren
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"What is research but a blind date with knowledge?"
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