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|01 = '''I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.'''<br /> | |01 = '''I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of 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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|38 = '''Words constitute the ultimate texture and stuff of our moral being, since they are the most refined and delicate and detailed, as well as the most universally used and understood, of the symbolisms whereby we express ourselves into existence.'''<br /> | |38 = '''Words constitute the ultimate texture and stuff of our moral being, since they are the most refined and delicate and detailed, as well as the most universally used and understood, of the symbolisms whereby we express ourselves into existence.'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Iris Murdoch]]<br /> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Iris Murdoch]]<br /> | ||
|39 = '''Nam et ipsa scientia potestas est (And thus knowledge itself is power).'''<br /> | |||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Francis Bacon|Sir Francis Bacon]]<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 09:34, 16 February 2010
The ink of the learned is equal in merit to the blood of the martyrs.
— Louis de Bernières (b. 1954), Birds Without Wings
—add a quote about knowledge or writing