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People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding. ↗

— Van Wyck Brooks

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North Carolina's approach in crafting its law ensured the creation of the best possible law and, consequently, North Carolina is now the acknowledged leader in addressing predatory lending. ↗

— Mel Watt

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I awake with a not entirely sickened knowledge that I am merely young again and in a funny way at peace, an observer who is aware of time's chariot, aware that some metamorphosis has occurred. ↗

— Harold Brodkey

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Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty. ↗

— Jacob Bronowski

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The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values. ↗

— William S. Burroughs

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Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life. ↗

— Lord Byron

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The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant. ↗

— Richard Cecil

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Poetic knowledge is born in the great silence of scientific knowledge. ↗

— Aime Cesaire

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Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

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Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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