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|21 = '''[[Knowledge]] is like [[money]]: To be of value it must circulate, and in circulating it can increase in quantity and, hopefully, in value.'''<br />
|21 = '''[[Knowledge]] is like [[money]]: To be of value it must circulate, and in circulating it can increase in quantity and, hopefully, in value.'''<br />
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— Louis L'Amour (1908–1988), U.S. author</cite>
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— Louis L'Amour (1908–1988), U.S. author</cite>
|22 = '''[[Ignorance]] is the [[curse]] of [[God]], [[knowledge]] the [[wing]] wherewith we [[flight|fly]] to [[heaven]].'''<br />
|22 = '''Ignorance is the curse of God, knowledge the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.'''<br />
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[William Shakespeare]] (1564–1616), Lord Saye, in Henry VI, Part 2, act</cite>
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[William Shakespeare]] (1564–1616), Lord Saye, in Henry VI, Part 2, act</cite>
|23 = '''Nothing you [[action|do]] is [[importance|important]], but it is very important that you do it.'''<br />
|23 = '''Nothing you [[action|do]] is [[importance|important]], but it is very important that you do it.'''<br />

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The problem is not how to increase an already large stock of information but how to increase people’s ability to find useful information, to judge what is reliable and relevant for them at that moment, to make sense of the sometimes conflicting information with which they are faced, and then to engage in communication and discussion when appropriate.
MASIS report of the European Commission

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