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|01 = '''I was brought up to believe that the only thing [[sense of life|worth doing]] was to add to the sum of [[Accuracy and precision|accurate]] [[information]] in the world.'''<br /> | |01 = '''I was brought up to believe that the only thing [[sense of life|worth doing]] was to add to the sum of [[Accuracy and precision|accurate]] [[information]] in the world.'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Margaret Mead]] (1901 - 1978)</cite> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Margaret Mead]] (1901 - 1978)</cite> | ||
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|48 = '''What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.'''<br /> | |48 = '''What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Henry David Thoreau]]''<br /> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Henry David Thoreau]]''<br /> | ||
|49 = '''Quality is what we live for.'''<br /> | |||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Brian Goodwin]], How the Leopard Changed Its Spots, Preface, 2001''<br /> | |||
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—<small>''[http://en.citizendium.org/wiki?title=CZ:Quote&action=edit add a quote about knowledge or writing]''</small> | —<small>''[http://en.citizendium.org/wiki?title=CZ:Quote&action=edit add a quote about knowledge or writing]''</small> | ||
Revision as of 20:25, 28 July 2011
Nam et ipsa scientia potestas est (And thus knowledge itself is power).
— Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626), Religious Meditations, Of Heresies
—add a quote about knowledge or writing