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"Knowledge, ideas, and wisdom are the most powerful forces that we can use to improve lives while bringing peace to this beautiful world."
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"As light nourishes plants, wisdom nourishes sages."
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"Beautiful silence is better than ugly speech."
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Personal Development

"Unless you know where you are going then you will not know how to get there."
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Personal Development

"You either waste, spend or invest time. Make your choice wisely."
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Personal Development

"Knowledge is your treasure. How well you spend and invest it will define your wisdom."
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Personal Development

"Knowledge makes you powerful and proud wisdom makes you simple and humble."
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Personal Development

"If you were brought up on a poor man's brand of drink and prefer that to this very day then do not pretend you like expensive wine."
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"The beginning of wisdom is understanding that life is full of ongoing learning experiences."
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"The post on her left was occupied by Mr. Erskine of Treadley, an old gentleman of considerable charm and culture, who had fallen, however, into bad habits of silence, having, as he explained once to Lady Agatha, said everything that he had to say before he was thirty."
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"We, to some degree, are like what we are because we inherited certain things from the Greeks and the Romans. One of them that's so striking is the whole area of politics."
Politics

"You have to liberate yourself first from the prejudices of the world in which you live."
Wisdom

"History had its own way of explaining things. The way historians explain things is by telling a story."
History

"All comparisons between America's current place in the world and anything legitimately called an empire in the past reveal ignorance and confusion about any reasonable meaning of the concept empire, especially the comparison with the Roman Empire."
Politics

"From the time I was a little boy I found myself reading history when I had a choice. I read a lot of things, but history had a special appeal for me."
History

"I can see that you are a true historian because you really always ought to ask that question about anybody at a different place or a different time: What's the same and what's different?"
Question

"Throughout the human experience people have read history because they felt that it was a pleasure and that it was in some way instructive. The profession of professor of history has taken it in a very different direction."
Experience
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