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" Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of. "

Benjamin Franklin

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" The gods do not need sacrifices, so what might one do to please them? Acquire wisdom, it seems to me, and do all the good in one's power to those humans who deserve it. "

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" Leave no stone unturned. "

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" Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows. "

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" When you get older, you learn certain life lessons. You apply that wisdom, and suddenly you say, 'Hey, I've got a new lease on this thing. So let's go.' "

" 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. "

" Alas, those six unfortunate souls who have made their way through my books know that every one of them is about Emerson and Thoreau and their dark counters, Melville and Emily Dickinson. Try as I might, I can't get their inspirations, their challenges and sentences and wisdom and questions out of my head. "

" If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner. "

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" My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate. "

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" Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it. "

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" Be as you wish to seem. "

" The online musical universe has become Balkanized, with many sites focusing on minute niches. That works well for reaching very specific demographics, which is wonderful for advertising, but it flies in the face of the common wisdom that people's tastes have become more diverse as music of any description has become a mouse-click away. "

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" If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself. "

" He that has not got a wife is not yet a complete man. "

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" Contrary to popular wisdom, the mark of a great meeting is not how short it is or whether it ends on time. The key is whether it ends with clarity and commitment from participants. "

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" The clouds may drop down titles and estates, and wealth may seek us, but wisdom must be sought. "

" Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. "

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" The problem with Google is you have 360 degrees of omnidirectional information on a linear basis, but the algorithms for irony and ambiguity are not there. And those are the algorithms of wisdom. "

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" To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly. "

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" To know one's self is wisdom, but not to know one's neighbors is genius. "

" Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing. "

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" Words of wisdom are spoken by children at least as often as scientists. "