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"I believe it has been said that one copy of The Times contains more useful information than the whole of the historical works of Thucydides."
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"It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information."
"I think around the world, our agents are the best collectors of information you'll find."
"Judgment is more than skill. It sets forth on intellectual seas beyond the shores of hard indisputable factual information."
"To beat the market you'll have to invest serious bucks to dig up information no one else has yet."
"When disinformation is running rampant, there are two ignorances that may emerge: the one is actually positive, a sort of pure and intentional emptying of the mind; but the other is of course negative and clogged and polluted."
"Disinformation is duping. Misinformation is tricking."
"Trade isn't about goods. Trade is about information. Goods sit in the warehouse until information moves them."
"It would be ideal if we could have an uncontrolled flow of information. But we realized you can't do that."
"When we hear news we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation."
"A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself."
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"For the progress of scientific knowledge will lead to a constant increase of expenditure."
"I came here as a practical man, to talk, not simply on the question of peace and war, but to treat another question which is of hardly less importance - the enormous and burdensome standing armaments which it is the practice of modern Governments to sustain in time of peace."
"On the contrary, all the world would point to that nation as violating a treaty, by going to war with a country with whom they had engaged to enter into arbitration."
"You may keep Turkey on the map of Europe, you may call the country by the name of Turkey if you like, but do not think you can keep up the Mahommedan rule in the country."
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