Paul Scott Quotes
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Let us democratise knowledge. Let us universalise justice. Together, let us globalise compassion!
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I'm a light sleeper. I've never been one of those people who can put their head down and suddenly everything disappears. Nighttime is the time I get most scared, anxious or worried. In those darker moments before waking or sleeping is when I feel most, I don't know, I can turn on myself, and my imagination can take me dark places.
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Making $30,000 on my first business deal was exciting, but not as exciting as the sudden knowledge that I did not have to work for anyone again.
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There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.
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Imagination is a very potent thing, and in the uneducated often usurps the place of genuine experience.
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I had an incredibly full life with my imagination: I used to have all sorts of trolls and things; I had a wonderful world around my toys and invented people. I don't mean I had imaginary friends; I just had this big imagination thing going on. I didn't need any imaginary friends, because I had so much other stuff going on.
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Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.
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Right now, doctors can test for about 2,500 medical conditions, but they only can treat about 500 of those. So what do you do with the knowledge about the others?
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If you know you are on the right track, if you have this inner knowledge, then nobody can turn you off... no matter what they say.
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What I see is not a world of male oppression and female victimization but an international conspiracy by women to keep from men the knowledge of men's own frailty. A strange maternal protectiveness is at work.
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Pure knowledge is the ultimate emancipator. It equalizes people and sovereign states, erodes the archaic barriers of superstition and promises to lift the trajectory of cultural evolution. But I do not believe that it can change the ground rules of human behavior or alter the main course of history's predictable trajectory.
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What can they do besides exile me or make me disappear? They have no imagination or creativity.
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Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.
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Imagination is the highest kite that can fly.
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My name is Jarrett Krosoczka, and I write and illustrate books for children for a living. So I use my imagination as my full-time job.
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Life is only a dream and we are the imagination of ourselves.
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Each co-operative institution will become a school of business in which each member will acquire a knowledge of the laws of trade and commerce.
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Think of the imagination as a giant stone from which we carve out new ideas. As we chip away, our new ideas become more polished and refined. But if you start by editing your imagination, you start with a tiny stone.
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Who would ever give up the reality of dreams for relative knowledge?
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If my accent betrayed my foreign birth, it also stamped me as an enemy, in the imagination of the producers.
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Knowledge comes from your instructors; wisdom comes from within.
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Do not talk a little on many subjects, but much on a few.
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If you create something that is asking for people to respond as they're going to respond, you have to allow them to respond as they're going to respond. Some of the people are going to be uninterested and some people are going to be mad for some reason, which is their business. That's just the way the world is.
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Imagination is not enough. Knowledge is necessary.
