Abu Hanifa Quotes
For the attainment of knowledge satisfaction is useful and satisfaction is not gained by increasing information but by decreasing it.
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Let us democratise knowledge. Let us universalise justice. Together, let us globalise compassion!
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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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There never yet has been a country which became powerful without knowledge. A man by his own strength alone cannot successfully combat a tiger, but by his intelligence, he can devise means to entrap him.
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The Internet is programmable information. The blockchain is programmable scarcity.
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I want to learn about a different religion. I grew up Catholic, but my grandfather was Jewish. Knowledge about other religions can help you understand your own better. I think it's kind of hypocritical to believe one thing and don't know about any others.
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Basically, our goal is to organize the world's information and to make it universally accessible and useful.
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Trade isn't about goods. Trade is about information. Goods sit in the warehouse until information moves them.
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The knowledge from an enlightened person breaks on the hard rocks of ignorance.
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Men we shall have only as we make manhood the object of the work of the schools - intelligence, broad sympathy, knowledge of the world that was and is, and of the relation of men to it - this is the curriculum of that Higher Education which must underlie true life.
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My mom took me to see Carnal Knowledge and The Wild Bunch and all these kind of movies when I was a kid.
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Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.
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Cinema seats make people lazy. They expect to be given all the information. But for me, question marks are the punctuation of life.
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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 intellectual takes as a starting point his self and relates the world to his own sensibilities; the scientist accepts an existing field of knowledge and seeks to map out the unexplored terrain.
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If knowledge and foresight are too penetrating and deep, unify them with ease and sincerity.
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My kids are in front of the computer 24x7 despite having all the parental control. There is no way to stop the flow of information. The flow of information is too fast and too much.
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It is not to benefit CBS, not to benefit its reporters. On this one, the entire basis of it is this is a way to get more information, more important information to the public. And that's why so many states recognize this.
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Great teachers emanate out of knowledge, passion and compassion.
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Good intentions are pointless without the will to implement them.
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Consider the cattle, grazing as they pass you by. They do not know what is meant by yesterday or today, they leap about, eat, rest, digest, leap about again, and so from morn till night and from day to day, fettered to the moment and its pleasure or displeasure, and thus neither melancholy nor bored. [...] A human being may well ask an animal: 'Why do you not speak to me of your happiness but only stand and gaze at me?' The animal would like to answer, and say, 'The reason is I always forget what I was going to say' - but then he forgot this answer too, and stayed silent.
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The stars were my best friends. The air was full of legends and phantoms, full of mythical and fair-tale creatures, which suddenly flew away over the roof, so that one was at one with the firmament.
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I'm generally intimidated by adults.
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As always, the British especially shudder at the latest American vulgarity, and then they embrace it with enthusiasm two years later.
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For the attainment of knowledge satisfaction is useful and satisfaction is not gained by increasing information but by decreasing it.
