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"Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences."
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"As light nourishes plants, wisdom nourishes sages."

"Self-knowledge is the greatest education."

"You are a product of your mind, a result of your thoughts, and a consequence of your actions."

"Beautiful silence is better than ugly speech."
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"The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started."

"The human body experiences a powerful gravitational pull in the direction of hope. That is why the patient's hopes are the physician's secret weapon. They are the hidden ingredients in any prescription."

"Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt."

"The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny."

"A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life."

"If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality."

"It is reasonable to expect the doctor to recognize that science may not have all the answers to problems of health and healing."

"If the United Nations is to survive, those who represent it must bolster it; those who advocate it must submit to it; and those who believe in it must fight for it."

"The way a book is read, which is to say, the qualities a reader brings to a book can have as much to do with its worth as anything the author puts into it."
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