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"Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize."
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"There is only a perspective seeing, only a perspective "knowing"; and the more affects we allow to speak about one thing, the more eyes, different eyes, we can use to observe one thing, the more complete will our "concept" of this thing, our "objectivity," be."

"Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know."

"One of the most important gifts that you can give to yourself is the gift of self-education, that is the best way to grow on constant basis."

"Understand the concept of time and find ways to maximize it effectively."

"Why must ignorance be destroyed? Because it is the number one destroyer of the people of God."

"Oh, my dear Vimes, history changes all the time. It is constantly being re-examined and re-evaluated, otherwise how would we be able to keep historians occupied? We can't possibly allow people with their sort of minds to walk around with time on their hands."
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"Make it new is the message not just of modern art but of modern consumerism, of which modern art is largely a mirror image."

"Conservatives sense a link between television and drugs, but they do not grasp the nature of this connection."

"The intellectual debility of contemporary conservatism is indicated by its silence on all important matters."

"The effect of the mass media is not to elicit belief but to maintain the apparatus of addiction."

"It is no longer an unwritten law of American capitalism that industry will attempt to maintain wages at a level that allows a single wage to support a family."

"The news appeals to the same jaded appetite that makes a child tire of a toy as soon as it becomes familiar and demand a new one in its place."

"The family wage has been eroded by the same developments that have promoted consumerism as a way of life."

"Conservatives have no understanding of modern capitalism. They have a distorted understanding of the traditional values they claim to defend."

"Drugs are merely the most obvious form of addiction in our society. Drug addiction is one of the things that undermines traditional values."

"Today Americans are overcome not by the sense of endless possibility but by the banality of the social order they have erected against it."
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