Knowledge is power only if man knows what facts not to bother with.
Robert Staughton Lynd
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Well, first of all, I think that a lot of the voters who are voting for the tea party candidates have really good impulses. That is, they believe that for years and years and years, the people with wealth and power or government power have done well and ordinary people have not. That's true. -
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In the same way that we need statesmen to spare us the abjection of exercising power, we need scholars to spare us the abjection of learning. -
The power of lying is much less than the power of what is not to be discussed. -
I try to deal with the complexities of power and social life, but as far as the visual presentation goes I purposely avoid a high degree of difficulty.
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- Knowledge is power only if man knows what facts not to bother with.
- One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge.
- Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left.