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I am said to be difficult of acquaintance, unwilling to meet any one half way, and showing a social manner which is easy, not diffident, but formal and unresponsive, tending constantly to hold people off.

~Albert J. Nock

Topics: Acquaintance Am Any Constantly Difficult Easy Formal Half Hold Manner Meet Off One Half People Said Showing Social Tending Unwilling Way Which I Am

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The mind is like the stomach. It is not how much you put into it that counts, but how much it digests.

~Albert J. Nock

Topics: Counts Digest How How Much Like Mind Much Put Stomach You

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As might be supposed, my parents were quite poor, but we somehow never seemed to lack anything we needed, and I never saw a trace of discontent or a failure in cheerfulness over their lot in life, as indeed over anything.

~Albert J. Nock

Topics: Anything Cheerfulness Discontent Failure Indeed Lack Life Lot Might Needed Never Over Parents Poor Quite Saw Seemed Somehow Supposed Trace Were

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It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no power of its own.

~Albert J. Nock

Topics: Just Money None Own Power State Too Understood Unfortunately Well

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The positive testimony of history is that the State invariably had its origin in conquest and confiscation. No primitive State known to history originated in any other manner.

~Albert J. Nock

Topics: Any Conquest Had History Invariably Known Manner Origin Originated Other Positive Primitive State Testimony

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Considered now as a possession, one may define culture as the residuum of a large body of useless knowledge that has been well and truly forgotten.

~Albert J. Nock

Topics: Been Body Considered Culture Define Forgotten Knowledge Large May Now Possession Truly Useless Useless Knowledge Well

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Diligent as one must be in learning, one must be as diligent in forgetting; otherwise the process is one of pedantry, not culture.

~Albert J. Nock

Topics: Culture Diligent Forgetting Learning Must Otherwise Pedantry Process

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Useless knowledge can be made directly contributory to a force of sound and disinterested public opinion.

~Albert J. Nock

Topics: Directly Disinterested Force Knowledge Made Opinion Public Public Opinion Sound Useless Useless Knowledge

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As far as I know, I have no pride of opinion.

~Albert J. Nock

Topics: As Far As Far Know Opinion Pride

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The position of modern science, as far as an ignorant man of letters can understand it, seems not a step in advance of that held by Huxley and Romanes in the last century.

~Albert J. Nock

Topics: Advance As Far As Century Far Held Ignorant Last Last Century Letters Man Modern Modern Science Position Science Seems Step Understand

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Philosopher

Born: October 13th, 1870

Died: August 19th, 1945

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