#edge

The library is seen as a force for self improvement and the pursuit of knowledge. I fear that in many cases this is no longer true, if it ever was. ↗

— John Redwood

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Yes! the books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill! The only years of my life that I can look back on with something like pride... Early and late, through the long winter nights and the quiet summer days, I drank at the fountain of knowledge, and never wearied of the draught. ↗

— Wilkie Collins

#knowledge #reading #life

There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words. ↗

— Thomas Reid

#ambiguity #greater #impediment #knowledge #than

Whoever claims that economic competition represents 'survival of the fittest' in the sense of the law of the jungle, provides the clearest possible evidence of his lack of knowledge of economics. ↗

— George Reisman

#clearest #competition #economic #economics #evidence

Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge. ↗

— Arthur Rimbaud

#bestows #divine #divine love #keys #knowledge

I'm sure Alex will be having to get the masseurs in to work on those legs. You feel tired when you're losing but when you are winning it gives you that bit of an edge. ↗

— Graham Roberts

#bit #edge #feel #get #gives

The channels of intuitive knowledge are opened according to the intensity of individual need. ↗

— Jane Roberts

#channels #individual #intensity #intuitive #knowledge

That's one of the ironies of our time: Right when we're on the edge of serious improvements in health care, we're also cooking the planet. ↗

— Kim Stanley Robinson

#care #cooking #edge #health #health care

This is how I define grace: you're on the main stage, and it looks like it has been rehearsed 100 times, everything goes so smoothly. That's where I get my confidence and success, from knowing that I have an edge because I know I'm prepared. ↗

— Alex Rodriguez

#been #confidence #define #edge #everything

One is either an artist or one is not. It is not something one becomes. It is something that one is from birth. We do not study to be artists. We study to become more proficient. To understand more. ↗

— Edward Swift

#artistry #being-yourself #creativity #identity #self-knowledge