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“In recent years our knowledge of modern technology has increased considerably, and as a result we have witnessed remarkable material progress, but there has not been a corresponding increase in human happiness. There is no less suffering in the world today, and there are no fewer problems. Indeed, it might be said that there are now more problems and greater dangers than ever before.”

Source: Modern Buddhism: The Path of Compassion and Wisdom - Volume 1 Sutra

“The age was still dark and reeked of the havoc and misfortunes of the Goths who had put all good literature to destruction. But, by God's goodness, in my time light and dignity were returned to letters, and I see there such improvement that today I would have great difficulty being admitted to the most elementary classes--I, who in my time was reputed to be (and not wrongly) to be the most knowledgeable person of the century.”

“Today a man of knowledge might well feel as though he were God transformed into an animal.”

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Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“I learn immediately from any speaker how much he has already lived, through the poverty or the splendor of his speech. Life lies behind us as the quarry from whence we get tiles and copestones for the masonry of today. This is the way to learn grammar. Colleges and books only copy the language which the field and the work-yard made.”

Source: Essays and English Traits by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Human beings act in a great variety of irrational ways, but all of them seem to be capable, if given a fair chance, of making a reasonable choice in the light of available evidence. Democratic institutions can be made to work only if all concerned do their best to impart knowledge and to encourage rationality. But today, in the world's most powerful democracy, the politicians and the propagandists prefer to make nonsense of democratic procedures by appealing almost exclusively to the ignorance and irrationality of the electors.”

Source: Complete Essays: 1956-1963, and supplement, 1920-1948

“Don't be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn't do what you do or think as you think or as fast. There was a time when you didn't know what you know today.”

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Author:Malcolm X

“For me, I am driven by two main philosophies, know more today about the world than I knew yesterday. And along the way, lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you.”

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Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“If you give me rice, I'll eat today; if you teach me how to grow rice, I'll eat every day.”

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Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“Any piece of knowledge I acquire today has a value at this moment exactly proportional to my skill to deal with it. Tomorrow, when I know more, I recall that piece of knowledge and use it better.”

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Author:Mark Van Doren

“Today the network of relationships linking the human race to itself and to the rest of the biosphere is so complex that all aspects affect all others to an extraordinary degree. Someone should be studying the whole system, however crudely that has to be done, because no gluing together of partial studies of a complex nonlinear system can give a good idea of the behavior of the whole.”

“Perhaps we're too embarrassed to change or too frightened of the consequences of showing that we actually care. But why not risk it anyway? Begin today. Carry out a random act of seemingly senseless kindness, with no expectation of reward or punishment, safe in the knowledge that one day, someone somewhere might do the same for you.”

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Author:Princess Diana

“Today, many companies are reporting that their number one constraint on growth is the inability to hire workers with the necessary skills.”

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Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 2000-2001

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 2000-2001

“In today's knowledge-based economy, what you earn depends on what you learn. Jobs in the information technology sector, for example, pay 85 percent more than the private sector average.”

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 2000-2001

“Your earning ability today is largely dependent upon your knowledge, skill and your ability to combine that knowledge and skill in such a way that you contribute value for which customers are going to pay.”

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Book:Earn What You're Really Worth: Maximize Your Income at Any Time in Any Market

Source: Earn What You're Really Worth: Maximize Your Income at Any Time in Any Market

“As knowledge increases, the verdict of yesterday must be reversed today, and in the long run the most positive authority is the least to be trusted.”

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Author:Hugh Nibley