Knowledge is power only if man knows what facts not to bother with.
Robert Staughton Lynd
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Well, the first thing is that truth and power for me form an antithesis, an antagonism, which will hardly ever be resolved. I can define in fact, can simplify the history of human society, the evolution of human society, as a contest between power and freedom.
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- Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left.