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And liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people who have a right from the frame of their nature to knowledge, as their great Creator who does nothing in vain, has given them understandings and a desire to know. But besides this they have a right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible divine right to the most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge, I mean of the characters and conduct of their rulers. John Adams
Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people... And the preservation of the means of knowledge among the lowest ranks is of more importance to the public than all the property of the rich men in the country... John Adams
The education that prepared me was my general education classes, which I tried to avoid when I was a stupid undergraduate, but which gave me the foundation of general knowledge that makes a career as a writer possible. Orson Scott Card
John Adams quote: "Liberty cannot be achieved without a general knowledge among..."
Liberty cannot be achieved without a general knowledge among the people, who have a right and a desire to know. John Adams
I thought everyone would be familiar with this figure: if I'd studied a thing in school I assumed it was general knowledge. I hadn't yet discovered that I lived in a sort of transparent balloon, drifting over the world without making much contact with it, and that the people I knew appeared to me at a different angle from the one at which they appeared to themselves; and that the reverse was also true. I was smaller to others, up there in my balloon, than I was to myself. I was also blurrier. Margaret Atwood
John Millington Synge quote: "The general knowledge of time on the island depends, curiously..."
The general knowledge of time on the island depends, curiously enough, on the direction of the wind. John Millington Synge
For this reason, to study English literature without some general knowledge of the relation of the Bible to that literature would be to leave one's literary education very incomplete. Lafcadio Hearn
Suzanne Somers quote: "There is a general knowledge that I am multi-dimensional, that..."
There is a general knowledge that I am multi-dimensional, that when you are creative you do a lot of things. Suzanne Somers
John Adams quote: "Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among..."
Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people. John Adams
Thomas M. Disch quote: "Knowledge is devalued when it becomes too generally known"
Knowledge is devalued when it becomes too generally known Thomas M. Disch
Generally, social networking sites can be hugely promising and beneficial in opening new friendships and vistas and knowledge of the world, but they are also fraught with peril, when young people are reckless or headless. Richard Blumenthal
Remember. You are a physician. You are not a policeman nor are you a minister of religion. You must take people as they come. Remember, too that though you will generally know more about the condition than the patient, it is the patient who has the condition and this if nothing else bestows on him or her a kind of wisdom. You have the knowledge but that does not entitle you to be superior. Knowledge makes you the servant not the master. Alan Bennett
I would address one general admonition to all, that they consider what are the true ends of knowledge, and that they seek it not either for pleasure of the mind, or for contention, or for superiority to others, or for profit, or for fame, or power, or any of these inferior things, but for the benefit and use of life; and that they perfect and govern it in charity. For it was from lust of power that the Angels fell, from lust of knowledge that man fell, but of charity there can be no excess,... Francis Bacon
Storytelling awakens us to that which is real. Honest. . . . it transcends the individual. . . . Those things that are most personal are most general, and are, in turn, most trusted. Stories bind. . . . They are basic to who we are. A story composite personality which grows out of its community. It maintains a stability within that community, providing common knowledge as to how things are, how things should be -- knowledge based on experience. These stories become the conscience of the... Terry Tempest Williams
The more Adams thought about the future of his country, the more convinced he became that it rested on education. Before any great things are accomplished, he wrote to a correspondent, a memorable change must be made in the system of education and knowledge must become so general as to raise the lower ranks of society nearer to the higher. The education of a nation instead of being confined to a few schools and universities for the instruction of the few, must become the national care and... David McCullough

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