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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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 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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The properties which differentiate living matter from any kind of inorganic imitation may be instinctively felt, but can hardly be formulated without expert knowledge.
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If knowledge and foresight are too penetrating and deep, unify them with ease and sincerity.
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Words that add no new information or aren't repeated for emphasis are just padding. A sentence may carry three or five or eight of them, each one as unnoticeable as an extra two ounces on your hips but collectively adding up to a large burden of fat.
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Ultimately, peace is just not about politics. It’s about attitudes; about a sense of empathy; about breaking down the divisions that we create for ourselves in our own minds and our own hearts that don’t exist in any objective reality, but that we carry with us generation after generation.
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The urge for retribution depends upon our not seeing the underlying causes of human behavior.
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There is no longer a doubt that women are just as competent as men. Gender differences are guided by nurture, as society treats boys and girls differently from an early age.
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I wanted to write with emotional honesty and tell a story people could connect with. And I wanted people to know how the foster system in America fails children; and how, at 18, they fall through the cracks. Then we can all work together and give support.
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In the right circumstances, MDMA reduces or sometimes eliminates the neurophysiological fear response to a perceived threat to one's emotional integrity... With a barrier of fear removed, a loving and forgiving awareness seemed to occur quite naturally and spontaneously.
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For the attainment of knowledge satisfaction is useful and satisfaction is not gained by increasing information but by decreasing it.
