Knowledge is power
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It’s a big ocean, and with the diminished blue whale numbers, he said, knowledge is power.
From New York Times • Jan. 23, 2024
RuPaul exhorted viewers to listen to drag queens who want to read you a story “because knowledge is power, and if someone tries to restrict your access to power, they are trying to scare you.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 16, 2024
Never has "knowledge is power" felt so true.
From BBC • Mar. 6, 2023
There's some truth to the saying that "knowledge is power."
From Salon • Jul. 8, 2022
The French philosophers are now preaching around the world, that knowledge is power, and so it is, but only as gunpowder is power; a dangerous invention which blew up the inventor.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843 by Various
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