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One can't doubt that the American objective in Iraq has failed - different plans have to be made. And the kernel here is the acknowledgement of defeat. ↗

— William F. Buckley, Jr.

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If no other knowledge deserves to be called useful but that which helps to enlarge our possessions or to raise our station in society, then Mythology has no claim to the appellation. ↗

— Thomas Bulfinch

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Without a knowledge of mythology much of the elegant literature of our own language cannot be understood and appreciated. ↗

— Thomas Bulfinch

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A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

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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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Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage. ↗

— Auguste Comte

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Now all the knowledge and wisdom that is in creatures, whether angels or men, is nothing else but a participation of that one eternal, immutable and increased wisdom of God. ↗

— Ralph Cudworth

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The great unity which true science seeks is found only by beginning with our knowledge of God, and coming down from Him along the stream of causation to every fact and event that affects us. ↗

— Howard Crosby

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Never regard study as a duty but as an enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later works belong." ~Albert Einstein "Einstein is referring to ones 'legacy' and its intended future recipients as being willfully purposed to benefit them on their journey through this gift of life given to us by God ↗

— R. Alan Woods

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When I entered medical physics in 1958 there were fewer than 100 in the U.S. and I could see many opportunities to apply my knowledge of nuclear physics. ↗

— John Cameron

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