"The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong."
-Jeremy Bentham
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"The age we live in is a busy age in which knowledge is rapidly advancing towards perfection.“
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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."
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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."
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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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