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<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Mahatma Gandhi]]</cite> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Mahatma Gandhi]]</cite> | ||
|24 = '''Good [[prose]] is like a [[windowpane]].'''<br /> | |24 = '''Good [[prose]] is like a [[windowpane]].'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[George Orwell]] (1903-1950) [http://www.netcharles.com/orwell/essays/whyiwrite.htm ''Why I Write]</cite> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[George Orwell]] (1903-1950) [http://www.netcharles.com/orwell/essays/whyiwrite.htm ''Why I Write'']</cite> | ||
|25 = '''That which we [[knowledge|know]] is a little thing; that which we do not know is immense. '''<br /> | |25 = '''That which we [[knowledge|know]] is a little thing; that which we do not know is immense. '''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Pierre-Simon de Laplace]] (1749-1827), French [[physicist]] and [[mathematician]], systematizer and elaborator of [[probability theory]]</cite> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Pierre-Simon de Laplace]] (1749-1827), French [[physicist]] and [[mathematician]], systematizer and elaborator of [[probability theory]]</cite> | ||
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Nam et ipsa scientia potestas est (And thus knowledge itself is power).
— Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626), Religious Meditations, Of Heresies
—add a quote about knowledge or writing