Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
Nowhere else can one find so miscellaneous, so various, an amount of knowledge as is contained in a good newspaper.
Quotes to Explore
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Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived. It is a pity that this is still the only knowledge of their wives at which some men seem to arrive.
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The fondest dream of the information age is to create an archive of all knowledge. You might call it the Alexandrian fantasy, after the great library founded by Ptolemy I in 286 BC.
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If you first fortify yourself with the true knowledge of the Universal Self, and then live in the midst of wealth and worldliness, surely they will in no way affect you.
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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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The acquisition of knowledge - knowledge of both the world and of their own religion - will inoculate young people against extremist ideologies.
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People always talk about the implication and applications of a process, but for me, the goal is purely about knowledge. Knowledge can become practical today, in 20 years, or in 500 years. Ask Newton. He didn't know there would be space research based on his accident with the apple.
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I grew up in Oregon so I grew up around reservations, so I've always kind of had this knowledge. Not a tremendous amount of knowledge, but an outsider's knowledge of what reservation life was like.
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Summer is not obligatory. We can start an infernally hard jigsaw puzzle in June with the knowledge that, if there are enough rainy days, we may just finish it by Labor Day, but if not, there's no harm, no penalty. We may have better things to do.
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When I was in college, I became interested in various aspects of foreign policy and international relations. Even as a kid, I was interested in what I call, loosely speaking, forbidden knowledge.
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The knowledge from an enlightened person breaks on the hard rocks of ignorance.
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People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding.
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'The Driver' wasn't commercially successful at the time, but when I was a teenager, I had no knowledge of that.
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If one must fight or create, it is necessary that this be preceded by the broadest possible knowledge.
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Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.
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Give people knowledge and they really eat it up and they appreciate it a lot and the more that knowledge is made available to people, the more they will utilize it and let it be a part of them.
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As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent; whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining knowledge with the greatest possible ease.
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In a world in which the total of human knowledge is doubling about every ten years, our security can rest only on our ability to learn.
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The only reason I was allowed to have a career for a quarter century as an insult comic is because it's all in jest and all for fun.
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Sometimes I wonder if the world is too interesting and too boring at the same time.
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We have to defeat ISIS. That is my highest counterterrorism goal.
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The aim of science is to falsify theories and to replace them by better theories, theories that demonstrate a greater ability to withstand tests.
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Nowhere else can one find so miscellaneous, so various, an amount of knowledge as is contained in a good newspaper.
