1. "general or specialized knowledge. An educated man"
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Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich
2. "general"
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Francis Fukuyama, The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution
3. "In general,' Voss replied, 'it is necessary to communicate without knowledge of the language."
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Patrick White, Voss
4. "And liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people who have a right from the frame of their nature to knowledge..."
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John Adams, The Works Of John Adams
5. "knowledge,"
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Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies
6. "But there is no such thing as individual knowledge, a particular knowledge belonging to one special person or group. Knowledge is the sea of humanity, the field of humanity, the general condition of human existence."
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Yukio Mishima, The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
7. "Okay, so divers have mastered a large body of occult knowledge. That explains their general resemblance to hackers, albeit physically fit hackers."
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Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon
8. "...scientific education has run so far ahead of artistic culture and general knowledge that adults with the mentality of children are playing with phenomenally powerful toys..."
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Elliot Paul, The Last Time I Saw Paris
9. "Let us say that, in general, failure (and disconfirmation) are more informative than success and confirmation, which is why I claim that negative knowledge is just more robust."
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder
10. "WHY I should clutter up my mind with general knowledge, for the purpose of being able to answer questions, when I have men around me who can supply any knowledge I require?"
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Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich: The Original 1937 Unedited Edition