#owl

Yes! the books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill! The only years of my life that I can look back on with something like pride... Early and late, through the long winter nights and the quiet summer days, I drank at the fountain of knowledge, and never wearied of the draught. ↗

— Wilkie Collins

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There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words. ↗

— Thomas Reid

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Whoever claims that economic competition represents 'survival of the fittest' in the sense of the law of the jungle, provides the clearest possible evidence of his lack of knowledge of economics. ↗

— George Reisman

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But a rise in the wages of labour would not equally affect commodities produced with machinery quickly consumed, and commodities produced with machinery slowly consumed. ↗

— David Ricardo

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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge. ↗

— Arthur Rimbaud

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The channels of intuitive knowledge are opened according to the intensity of individual need. ↗

— Jane Roberts

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One is either an artist or one is not. It is not something one becomes. It is something that one is from birth. We do not study to be artists. We study to become more proficient. To understand more. ↗

— Edward Swift

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Acting is standing up naked and turning around very slowly. ↗

— Rosalind Russell

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When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him. ↗

— Bayard Rustin

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I think in the NFL knowledge is power, and you try to get the knowledge by whatever means. ↗

— Steve Sabol

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