One of the Seven was wont to say 'Laws were like cobwebs where the small flies were caught, and the great brake through.'
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Nature is a labyrinth in which the very haste you move with will make you lose your way.Francis Bacon
Knowledge is power.
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When a bee stings, she dies. She cannot sting and live. When men sting, their better selves die. Every sting kills a better instinct. Men must not turn bees and kill themselves in stinging others.
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I would live to study, and not study to live.
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Knowledge and human power are synonymous.
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He that commands the sea is at great liberty, and may take as much and as little of the war as he will.
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