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“Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.”
Meaning: Mann argued in his 1855 lectures that each real discovery or lesson increases what people can accomplish. Turn it into practice by choosing one concrete thing you want to be able to do, such as budgeting or a language, and learning one new fact toward it each day.