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To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

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It is because nations tend towards stupidity and baseness that mankind moves so slowly; it is because individuals have a capacity for better things that it moves at all. ↗

— George Gissing

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Play is the beginning of knowledge. ↗

— George Dorsey

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All good poetry is forged slowly and patiently, link by link, with sweat and blood and tears. ↗

— Alfred Douglas

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As a physicist, I can state that none of the 18 physicists who signed the Statement works in this field; nor to my knowledge has ever published a paper on this subject. ↗

— David Douglass

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When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

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If we don't empower ourselves with knowledge, then we're gonna be led down a garden path. ↗

— Fran Drescher

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Checking the results of a decision against its expectations shows executives what their strengths are, where they need to improve, and where they lack knowledge or information. ↗

— Peter Drucker

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Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes. ↗

— Peter Drucker

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The view is endlessly fulfilling. It is like the answer to a lifetime of questions and vague cravings. ↗

— Don DeLillo

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