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" As a society, we come up lacking in many of the marks of compassion and wisdom by which we measure ourselves as civilized. "
Greg Boyle
Measure
Wisdom
Society
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" Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours. "
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" A cardinal rule in budgeting and saving is to pay yourself first. Once your paycheck hits your account, wisdom has it that you should move some amount to savings even before you pay the bills. "
John Rampton
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" Now it is time to turn to an older wisdom that, while respecting material comfort and security as a basic right of all, also recognises that many of the most valuable things in life cannot be measured. "
Michael D. Higgins
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" The wisdom of the crowds has peaked. Web 3.0 is taking what we've built in Web 2.0 - the wisdom of the crowds - and putting an editorial layer on it of truly talented, compensated people to make the product more trusted and refined. "
Jason Calacanis
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Make
" Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. "
H. L. Mencken
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Democracy
Ignorance
" Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence. "
Jean Paul
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Out
Change
" To avoid entangling alliances has been a maxim of our policy ever since the days of Washington, and its wisdom no one will attempt to dispute. "
James Buchanan
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" Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well. "
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Wisdom
Great
" Public opinion is no more than this: what people think that other people think. "
Alfred Austin
More
Opinion
People
" Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows. "
Alfred North Whitehead
Wisdom
Knowledge
Grows
" The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure. "
William Blake
Measured
Clock
Hours
" Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only. "
Samuel Smiles
Life
Wisdom
School
" A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right. "
Thomas Paine
Habit
Long
Thinking
" The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practiced, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. "
Pierre Charron
Wisdom
Know
Good
" Look around for a place to sow a few seeds. "
Henry Van Dyke
Wisdom
Look
Few
" If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner. "
Omar N. Bradley
Technology
Prove
May
" The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while. "
Albert Einstein
Short
Power
Only
" In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by. "
Lucille Ball
Wisdom
Life
Hard
" The draconian spirit that seeks to enhance penalties and to lower the age at which juveniles will be tries as adults, is part of the 'whole cloth' of three strikes. Our failure to address the depair of our inner-city youth is only delayed by our over-confidence in a stance that is 'tougher than thou.' "
Greg Boyle
Will
Failure
Spirit
" I know two L.A.s. Half my life was around the house my folks had for 46 years at 3rd and Norton. The other half was in Boyle Heights on the Eastside, working with gang members. "
Greg Boyle
Life
Two
My Life
" I wouldn't trade my life for anybody's. "
Greg Boyle
Trade
Life
Anybody
" The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying. "
Norman Douglas
Living
Dying
Things
" Kabbalah is all about change. It isn't about being proud of our good qualities: the wisdom is about transforming our darkness into light. "
Yehuda Berg
Wisdom
Light
Change
" I have no agenda except to be funny. Neither I or the writers profess to offer any worldly wisdom. "
Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Wisdom
Agenda
Funny
" Redemption is possible, and it is the measure of a civilized society. "
Greg Boyle
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" Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking. "
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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" Patience is the companion of wisdom. "
Saint Augustine
Companion
Wisdom
Patience
" The problem lies with us: we've become addicted to experts. We've become addicted to their certainty, their assuredness, their definitiveness, and in the process, we have ceded our responsibility, substituting our intellect and our intelligence for their supposed words of wisdom. "
Noreena Hertz
Us
Intelligence
Wisdom
" In complete darkness, it is only knowledge and wisdom that separates us. "
Janet Jackson
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Us
Darkness
" I knew that I had it tough compared to children around me. But I felt like I needed it. I think I had the wisdom as a child to know that it would help me later on. "
Troy Polamalu
Children
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