Knowledge will forever govern ignorance, and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power knowledge gives.

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"The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home."

- James Madison

Awareness

"Pure democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security, or the rights of property; and have, in general, been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths."

- James Madison

Awareness

"The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money."

- James Madison

Belief

"America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity. That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts."

- James Madison

Belief

"Ambition must be made to counteract ambition."

- James Madison

Balance

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"Knowledge is that which benefits not that which is memorized."

- Imam al-Shafi’i (RA)

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"I didnt get over 1300 walks without knowing the strike zone."

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"Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don’t."

- Bill Nye

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"The secret to success is to know something nobody else knows."

- Aristotle Onassis

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"Knowledge is not power. The implementation of knowledge is power."

- Larry Winget

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