Useless knowledge can be made directly contributory to a force of sound and disinterested public opinion.
Albert J. Nock
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- As might be supposed, my parents were quite poor, but we somehow never seemed to lack anything we needed, and I never saw a trace of discontent or a failure in cheerfulness over their lot in life, as indeed over anything.
- The positive testimony of history is that the State invariably had its origin in conquest and confiscation. No primitive State known to history originated in any other manner.
- Considered now as a possession, one may define culture as the residuum of a large body of useless knowledge that has been well and truly forgotten.
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- The business of a scientific school is the dissemination of useful knowledge, and this is a noble enterprise and indispensable withal society can not exist unless it goes on.