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" The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education. "
John Updike
Children
Wisdom
Parents
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" Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color. "
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" My own life is wonderful, but if I had to live the life of someone else, I'd gladly choose that of Julia Child or Dr. Seuss: two outrageously original people, each of whom fashioned an idiosyncratic wisdom, passion for life, and sense of humor into an art form that anyone and everyone could savor. "
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" Wisdom comes by disillusionment. "
George Santayana
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" You've got to go out on a limb sometimes because that's where the fruit is. "
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" If we have built on the fragile cornerstones of human wisdom, pride, and conditional love, things may look good for a while, but a weak foundation causes collapse when storms hit. "
Charles Stanley
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" Wisdom and goodness are twin-born, one heart must hold both sisters, never seen apart. "
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" Does fiction, artistic writing, have much of a future? I must say it's on the way out. "
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" When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield. "
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" Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use. "
Thomas J. Watson
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" War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end; it has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes. "
Thomas Paine
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" The writer must face the fact that ordinary lives are what most people live most of the time, and that the novel as a narration of the fantastic and the adventurous is really an escapist plot; that aesthetically, the ordinary, the banal, is what you must deal with. "
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You
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" Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom. "
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Rather
May
" Most people see what they expect to see, what they want to see, what they've been told to see, what conventional wisdom tells them to see - not what is right in front of them in its pristine condition. "
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Expect
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" Justice Scalia was a lion of the law. Agree or disagree with him, all of his colleagues on the bench shared his wisdom and his humor. And like them, I miss him. "
Neil Gorsuch
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Law
Lion
" You can observe a lot by watching. "
Yogi Berra
You
Watching
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" A seventeenth-century house can be recognized by its steep roof, massive central chimney and utter porchlessness. Some of those houses have a second-story overhang, emphasizing their medieval look. "
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" When I wrote Living in the Light, I wanted to share about how I live my own life and to encourage people to tap into their own inner wisdom. "
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Light
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" Conventional wisdom on government's role in inequality often has it backwards. Tax reforms have resulted in a more progressive federal income tax; government transfer payments have become less progressive. "
Paul Ryan
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Tax
" In world mythology, there are countless examples of tragic characters whose greatest strength is also the source of their undoing. But the ancient Greeks and Romans also held the view that acceptance is the beginning of wisdom. "
Simon Van Booy
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Strength
Beginning
" Our great power does not mean we can do whatever we want whenever we want, nor should we assume we have all the wisdom and knowledge necessary to succeed. "
John McCain
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Power
" Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. "
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" A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool. "
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" Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom. "
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" A room containing Philip Roth, I have noticed, begins hilariously to whirl and pulse with a mix of rebelliousness and constriction that I take to be Oedipal. "
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" If you have the guts to keep making mistakes, your wisdom and intelligence leap forward with huge momentum. "
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" Being naked approaches being revolutionary; going barefoot is mere populism. "
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" Spending two years on my uncle's ranch in Montana as a young man gave me the wisdom and the thrust to do westerns. "
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" If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there. "
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" I am a poor student sitting at the feet of giants, yearning for their wisdom and begging for lessons that might one day make me a complete artist, so that if all goes well, I may one day sit beside them. "
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