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Power Of Knowledge

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There is strong shadow where there is much light.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Speech after long silence; it is right,
All other lovers being estranged or dead…
That we descant and yet again descant
Upon the supreme theme of Art and Song:
Bodily decrepitude is wisdom; young
We loved each other and were ignorant.

William Butler Yeats

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Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do.

Saint Thomas Aquinas

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Knowledge—Zzzzzp! Money—Zzzzzp!—Power! That’s the cycle democracy is built on!

Tennessee Williams

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The greatest happiness for the thinking man is to have fathomed the fathomable, and to quietly revere the unfathomable.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control,
These three alone lead life to sovereign power.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

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This is the bitterest pain among men, to have much knowledge but no power.

Herodotus

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