"Knowledge might not be power, but ignorance was definitely weakness, and so was poverty."

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“I wanted to give you a victory. But by their essential nature triumphs can’t be given. They must be taken and the worse the odds and the fiercer the resistance, the greater the honor. Victories can’t be gifts.”

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