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Wisdom Quotes
"If one bite fills you, you don't need two."
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"The highest wisdom is continual cheerfulness such a state like the region above the moon is always clear and serene."
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"Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement."
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"The problem is not just the wrong ormistake that you did but the correction,/right you refused to do."
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"Flawless and faultless outcomes are not products of lawless and careless people. No lawless person is a genuine innovator. To your skillfulness, add good manners; to your willfulness, add carefulness!"
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"A proverb is much matter distilled into few words."
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"The plan was criticized by some retired military officers embedded in TV studios. But with every advance by our coalition forces, the wisdom of that plan becomes more apparent."
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"Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form."
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"Who in their infinite wisdom decreed that Little League uniforms be white? Certainly not a mother."
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"Do what is right, not what is easy nor what is popular."
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"Second, this epic tale allows the audience to actually listen to the Native Americans and receive their wisdom. Spielberg conveys the respect for Native Americans that is normally lacking in Western films."
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"Do not be very upright in your dealings for you would see by going to the forest that straight trees are cut down while crooked ones are left standing."
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"At sixty, I know little more about wisdom than I did at thirty, but I know a great deal more about folly."
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"If small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small."
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"Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself."
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"That is why I don't believe much in what Mr. Descartes said: "I think, therefore I am." I think, therefore I'm lost in my thinking. I'm not there."
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"Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil."
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"A tree doesn't make a thunderstorm, but any fool knows where lighting s going to strike"."
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"An unlearned carpenter of my acquaintance once said in my hearing: 'There is very little difference between one man and another but what there is is very important.'"
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"The object of Sufi preparatory study, however, being to illustrate, expose and out-manoeuvre superficial ambition."
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"There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness or death. Any attempt to prove otherwise constitutes unacceptable behavior."
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"If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf."
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"If you look at it, life is like one big series of lessons, that starts the moment we are born."
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"The best cure for one's bad tendencies is to see them in action in another person."
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"Once you let them establish their ideology in you, they will drive you crazy."
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"That which is worth telling is not worth having."
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"In general, any form of exercise, if pursued continuously, will help train us in perseverance. Long-distance running is particularly good training in perseverance."
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"What is a secret? It is much more than knowledge shared with only a few, or perhaps only one another. It is power. It is a bond. It is a sign of deep trust, or the darkest threat possible. There is power in the keeping of a secret, and power in the revelation of a secret. Sometimes it takes a very wise man to discern which is the path to greater power. All men desirous of power should become collectors of secrets. There is no secret too small to be valuable. All men value their own secrets far above those of others. A scullery maid may be willing to betray a prince before allowing the name of her secret lover to be told."
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"Never play a blame game. Your feet are aching because you put them into a tight shoe... Nobody has it on; it's you who have it on! Your aims will help you to get out of trouble games, but not your blames!"
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