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" How do you rate works of genius? Partly by personal inclination, partly by accepted wisdom, partly by popularity. "

Robert Gottlieb

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" Each of us finds his unique vehicle for sharing with others his bit of wisdom. "

" The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are. "

" Man works outwardly and inwardly - after rest, he has energy; after energy, he needs repose; so, when we have given instruction for a time, we need instruction and must receive it, or the spirit faints and wisdom herself grows bitter. "

" Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise. "

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" Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures. "

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" Community organizing is all about building grassroots support. It's about identifying the people around you with whom you can create a common, passionate cause. And it's about ignoring the conventional wisdom of company politics and instead playing the game by very different rules. "

" Please all, and you will please none. "

" It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters. "

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" We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started. "

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" Your art kind of changes as you get older, by nature of the fact that you're hopefully gaining wisdom and you're starting to watch things with a better overview. "

" There should be a point to movies. Sure, you're giving people a diversion from the cold world for a bit, but at the same time, you pass on some facts and rules and maybe a little bit of wisdom. "

" Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it. "

" 'Beloved Renegade' is a meditation on Walt Whitman, on tenderness, on dying. "

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" No agent/publisher is in a position to create across a spectrum of media and distribution what major publishers can accomplish for authors. "

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" I believe that we are solely responsible for our choices, and we have to accept the consequences of every deed, word, and thought throughout our lifetime. "

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" Champions invariably have fervent philosophical beliefs. Philosophy, in its simplest terms, means 'the love of wisdom.' "

" Unhappy is that Grandeur which makes us too great to be good; and that Wit which sets us at a distance from true Wisdom. "

" The wisdom of age: don't stop walking. "

" Holy wisdom confounds Satan and all his wickednesses. "

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" We all admire the wisdom of people who come to us for advice. "

" Patience is the companion of wisdom. "

Saint Augustine

" The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying. "

" Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken. "

" Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it. "

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" Like all editors, I assume, I'm a reactor. "

Robert Gottlieb

" Sometimes I am happy and sometimes not. I am, after all, a human being, you know. And I am glad that we are sometimes happy and sometimes not. You get your wisdom working by having different emotions. "

" As a society, we come up lacking in many of the marks of compassion and wisdom by which we measure ourselves as civilized. "