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" He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom. "
James Huneker
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" Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. "
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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. "
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" The left has come to regard common sense - the traditional wisdom and folkways of the community - as an obstacle to progress and enlightenment. "
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" Wisdom is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two. "
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" After 25-plus years as a lawyer, prosecutor, and defense attorney, I have developed a deep appreciation for both the wisdom of the law and the role that jurists play in framing the rights and responsibilities that define our society. "
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" How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone. "
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" Has fortune dealt you some bad cards. Then let wisdom make you a good gamester. "
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" To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue. "
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" Economists often like startling theorems, results which seem to run counter to conventional wisdom. "
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" Now all the knowledge and wisdom that is in creatures, whether angels or men, is nothing else but a participation of that one eternal, immutable and increased wisdom of God. "
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" What if Barack Obama established a Presidential Advisory Committee that would meet once every couple of months, bringing together the former presidents for a conference in order to seek their collective wisdom? There is a wealth of experience in former presidents that generally goes untapped. "
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" We gain the strength of the temptation we resist. "
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" Repeat anything often enough and it will start to become you. "
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" They are few in the midst of an overwhelming mass of brute force, and their submission is wisdom; but for a nation like England to submit to be robbed by any invader who chooses to visit her shores seemed to me to be nonsense. "
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" I'm not wise, but the beginning of wisdom is there; it's like relaxing into - and an acceptance of - things. "
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" The future has already arrived. It's just not evenly distributed yet. "
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" It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important. "
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" 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. "
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" We humans have lost the wisdom of genuinely resting and relaxing. We worry too much. We don't allow our bodies to heal, and we don't allow our minds and hearts to heal. "
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" It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things. "
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" The more I work with the body, keeping my assumptions in a temporary state of reservation, the more I appreciate and sympathize with a given disease. The body no longer appears as a sick or irrational demon, but as a process with its own inner logic and wisdom. "
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" Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience. "
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