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|53 = '''The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first our own increase of knowledge; secondly to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.'''<br />
|53 = '''The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first our own increase of knowledge; secondly to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.'''<br />
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[John Locke]]''<br />
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[John Locke]]''<br />
|54 = '''[the reader] must write the text as much as possible in order to avoid being written by the text's ideology.'''
|54 = '''[The reader] must write the text as much as possible in order to avoid being written by the text's ideology.'''
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— Phillipe Soller, novelist<br />
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— Phillipe Soller, novelist<br />
|55 = '''We do but learn today what our better advanced judgements will unteach tomorrow.'''<br />
|55 = '''We do but learn today what our better advanced judgements will unteach tomorrow.'''<br />

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Words constitute the ultimate texture and stuff of our moral being, since they are the most refined and delicate and detailed, as well as the most universally used and understood, of the symbolisms whereby we express ourselves into existence.
Iris Murdoch

       —add a quotation about knowledge or writing