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1 " More access to information meant more dissent, more informed discussion, more widespread criticism of authority. Information changed the world. "
― Steve Berry , The Alexandria Link (Cotton Malone, #2)
2 " Words are indeed the true weapons of mass destruction. "
3 " It’s not so much the wars as the treaties that follow that truly alter the course of history. The Marshall Plan changed the world more expressly than World War II itself. Words are indeed the true weapons of mass destruction. "
4 " Knowledge is the first thing eradicated once power is attained. History has proven that over and over. "
5 " that most precious of human commodities—knowledge. "
6 " no different from the myriad of other politicos he’d bought and sold from around the world, men and women eager for power and lacking in conscience. "
7 " Right, wrong, doesn’t matter. Just do something. "
8 " The Koran likewise. The Magna Carta. The American Constitution. Billions of people govern their lives by those words. Society has been altered by them. "
9 " Knowledge should never be feared. "
10 " Never hate your enemy. That clouded judgment. "
11 " That’s the problem with bureaucrats. They think everything is negotiable.” The "
12 " Old friendships could atrophy. People changed. What was once appreciated between two people became uncomfortable. "
13 " Respect is earned. "
14 " Knowledge is far more powerful than any weapon, "
15 " When things go bad, anything can hurt you, including doing nothing. "
16 " Lateness is rude. "
17 " Always know your battlefield. He "
18 " At only two points in human history had knowledge radically expanded on a global scale. Once during the Renaissance, which continued to the present, and the other during the fourth century BCE, when Greece ruled the world. He "
19 " He’d read once that the measure of an idea was how relative it was not only to its time, but beyond. His "
