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Daniel J Boorstin [01Oct1914 - 28Feb2004]

Quoterian.com - Knowledge is not simply another commodity. On the contrary. Knowledge is never used up. It increases by diffusion and grows by dispersion.

Details: Honored with Pulitzer Prize in history (1974) for his book "The Americans".

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Happiness : Bertrand Arthur William Russell [18May1872 - 2Feb1970]

Quoterian.com - To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

Details: Nobel Prize awardee in Literature (1950) who lead the British "revolt against idealism" in the early 1900s.

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Daniel Joseph Boorstin [01Oct1914 - 28Feb2004]

Quoterian.com - I have observed that the world has suffered far less from ignorance than from pretensions to knowledge. It is not skeptics or explorers but fanatics and ideologues who menace decency and progress. No agnostic ever burned anyone at the stake or tortur.

Details: Honored with Pulitzer Prize in history (1974) for his book "The Americans".

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Wisdom : Bertrand Arthur William Russell [18May1872 - 02Feb1970]

Quoterian.com - To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Details: Nobel Prize awardee in Literature (1950) who lead the British "revolt against idealism" in the early 1900s.

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Daniel Joseph Boorstin [1Oct1914 - 28Feb2004]

Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.

Details: Honored with Pulitzer Prize in history (1974) for his book "The Americans".

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Perseverance : Bertrand Arthur William Russell [18May1872 - 2Feb1970]

Quoterian.com - War does not determine who is right - only who is left.

Details: Nobel Prize awardee in Literature (1950) who lead the British "revolt against idealism" in the early 1900s.

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Sir John Collings Squire [2Apr1884 - 20Dec1958]

But I'm not so think as you drunk I am.

Details: Best known for his satirical poetry. He worked as editor of the New Statesman (1913 -1917) and London Mercury (1919 - 1934).

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Henry David Thoreau [12Jul1817 - 6May1862)

Law never made men a whit more just.
Details : His philosophy of civil disobedience influenced the political thoughts and actions of famous people like Leo Tolstoy, Mahatma Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, Jr.

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