"Put two or three men in positions of conflicting authority. This will force them to work at loggerheads, allowing you to be the ultimate arbiter."
-Franklin D. Roosevelt
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"No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.“
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"Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan."
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"Belief and knowledge are considered to be two different things. But they are not."
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"Here, class attendance is expected and students are required to take notes, which they are tested on. What is missing, it seems to me, is the use of knowledge, the practical training."
-Harrison Salisbury
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"Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity."
-Abraham Cowley
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"My father was a lawyer and to my best knowledge nobody in my family before had interest in science."
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"Melville brought to the task a sound knowledge of actual whaling, much curious learning in the literature of the subject, and, above all, an imagination which worked with great power upon the facts of his own experience."
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