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"We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed."
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"Never stop acquiring the commonsense, it is as good as the knowledge."
"Collecting facts is important. Knowledge is important. But if you don't have an imagination to use the knowledge, civilization is nowhere."
"Ignorance leads to sin."
"This (Knowledge of Akram Vignan) is the 'real' thing and it is the absolute truth and the absolute truth is always functional (gives results)."
"She'd bought a blue notebook in the pharmacy to write down her aunt's remedies. Star tulip to understand dreams, bee balm for a restful sleep, black mustard seed to repel nightmares, remedies that used essential oils of almond or apricot or myrrh from thorn trees in the desert. Two eggs, which must never be eaten, set under a bed to clean a tainted atmosphere. Vinegar as a cleansing bath. Garlic, salt, and rosemary, the ancient spell to cast away evil."
"Without books, everything would have been crooked. Without books, the wisdom in books today would have been fairy and folk tales. Without books the whole truth about life would have been imaginations and a guessing game."
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"To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread."
"It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck."
"War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies."
"Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance."
"Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more."
"He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place."
"Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture."
"That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time."
"Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person."
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