"One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge."
-Robert Staughton Lynd
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"Knowledge is power only if man knows what facts not to bother with.“
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"Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long."
-Robert Staughton Lynd
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"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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"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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"When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace."
-Jimi Hendrix
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"The strategic adversary is fascism... the fascism in us all, in our heads and in our everyday behavior, the fascism that causes us to love power, to desire the very thing that dominates and exploits us."
-Michel Foucault
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"Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment."
-Mahatma Gandhi
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"Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes."
-Eleanor Roosevelt
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"Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power."
-John Steinbeck
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"It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power."
-David Brin
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