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	When the knower has to apply knowledge...
		Let us imagine a pilot, and assume that he has passed every examination with distinction, but that he had not as yet been at sea. Imagine him in a storm; he knows everything he ought to do, but he has not known before how terror grips the seafarer when the stars are lost in the blackness of night; he has not known the sense of impotence that comes when the pilot sees the wheel in his hand become a plaything for the waves; he has not known how the blood rushes to the head when on tries to make calculations at such a moment; in short, he has no conception of the changes that takes place in the knower when he has to apply his knowledge.
		M.S. Kierkegaard "Thoughts on crucial Situations in Human Life" In Parables of Kirkegaard T.C. Oden, Editor (1978) Princeton University Press, p.38.
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