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• They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge.
  Thomas Brackett Reed...
• Knowledge is power. -- Thomas Hobbe
• Imagine the entire contents of the planetary datalinks, the sum total of human knowledge, blasted into the Planetmind's fragile neural network with the full power of every reactor on the planet.
  Thousands of years of civilization compressed into a single searing burst of revelation....
• Yawn: The only time some men get to open their mouths.
• Since trifles make the sum of human things, And half our misery from our foibles springs.
  -- Hannah More (1745-1833) -- Sensibility...
• A statesman is a successful politician who is dead. -- Thomas B. Reed (1839-1902)
• It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.
  -- Voltaire...
• Very few beings really seek knowledge in this world.
  Few really ask. On the contrary, they try to wring from the unknown the answers they have already shaped in their own minds--justification, confirmation--forms of consolation without which they can't go on....
• Knowledge without common sense is folly.