
Knowledge for its own sake was meaningless, its mere accumulation a waste of time. Knowledge must lead to understanding.

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Perhaps the best known, and certainly the most vaunted, "discovery" of modern public opinion research is the indifference and ignorance of a majority of the electorate in western democracies.
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