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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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"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."
"A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself."
"How easy it is for so many of us today to be undoubtedly full of information yet fully deprived of accurate information."
"But the newest research is showing that many properties of the brain are genetically organized, and don't depend on information coming in from the senses."
"It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information."
"If you combat an international phenomenon, it is indispensable to share information internationally."
"You can have data without information, but you cannot have information without data."
"Psychoanalysts seem to be long on information and short on application."
"It would be ideal if we could have an uncontrolled flow of information. But we realized you can't do that."
"Unless you know a lot more about something than I do, I am not really that interested. I have too much information already."
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"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."
"The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labors of cabinets and foreign offices."
"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."
"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."
"I cannot separate the finances of India from those of England. If the finances of the Indian Government receive any severe and irreparable check, will not the resources of England be called upon to meet the emergency, and to supply the deficiency?"
"I confess that for fifteen years my efforts in education, and my hopes of success in establishing a system of national education, have always been associated with the idea of coupling the education of this country with the religious communities which exist."
"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."
"The problem to solve is, whether a single or a double government would be most advantageous; and, in considering that point, I am met by this difficulty - that I cannot see that the present form of government is a double government at all."
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