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John Acton

"If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation."

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"If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation."

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Akiroq Brost

"The man who discovers new knowledge is the permanent benefactor of humanity."

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"Never stop acquiring the commonsense, it is as good as the knowledge."

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"Collecting facts is important. Knowledge is important. But if you don't have an imagination to use the knowledge, civilization is nowhere."

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"A specialist is a person who knows very much about very little and continues to learn more and more about less and less until eventually he knows practically everything about almost nothing at all."

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"This (Knowledge of Akram Vignan) is the 'real' thing and it is the absolute truth and the absolute truth is always functional (gives results)."

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"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."

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Akiroq Brost

"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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"Dare to learn. Dare to relearn. Dare to outlearn."

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"History provides neither compensation for suffering nor penalties for wrong."
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"Liberty is the condition of duty, the guardian of conscience. It grows as conscience grows. The domains of both grow together. Liberty is safety from all hindrances, even sin. So that Liberty ends by being Free Will."
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"Far from being the product of a democratic revolution and of an opposition to English institutions, the constitution of the United States was the result of a powerful reaction against democracy, and in favor of the traditions of the mother country."
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"The fate of every democracy, of every government based on the sovereignty of the people, depends on the choices it makes between these opposite principles, absolute power on the one hand, and on the other the restraints of legality and the authority of tradition."
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"Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin."
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"The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities."
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"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely."
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"Liberty is the prevention of control by others."
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"By liberty I mean the assurance that every man shall be protected in doing what he believes is his duty against the influence of authority and majorities, custom and opinion."
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