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• There is much pleasure to be gained in useless knowledge. -- Bertrand Russell
• Quote #396 "What experience and history teach is this--that people and government never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.
  -- Hegel...
• What experience and history teach is this - that nations and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted upon any lessons they might have drawn from it.
  -- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, "Philosophy and History...
• The great end of life is not knowledge, but action.
  What men need is as much knowledge as they can organize for actio...
• The great end of life is not knowledge, but action.
  What men need is as much knowledge as they can organize for actio...
• Learn what not to do from the experience of others. It's cheaper than your own. -- J. Winter Smith
• The only thing I ever learned from experience was that I'd just made another mistake.
• There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience, and this is not learning from experience.
  -- Laurence J. Pete...
• I have gained this by philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.
  -- Aristotle...