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" I'd love to spend more time on the Isle of Man. I love the anonymity of putting on a boiler suit and going down to buy parts for the compressor. And Norman Wisdom's a neighbour; I salute him occasionally. "

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" There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives. "

Cyril Connolly

Beginning

Rest

Strong

" But life is long. And it is the long run that balances the short flare of interest and passion. "

" When I looked further into my mother's history, I realised that her anxieties and her neuroses could be accounted for by facts from a very early age. Her parents, William Henry Jones and Sarah Emily, were desperately poor. "

" Repeat anything often enough and it will start to become you. "

" Whatever religion or wisdom, spirituality and values are important to me and to the business. "

Isabelle Kocher

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Wisdom

" Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action. "

Thomas Babington Macaulay

Wise

Wisdom

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" Central banks don't have divine wisdom. They try to do the best analysis they can and must be prepared to stand or fall by the quality of that analysis. "

" Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification. "

Martin H. Fischer

Wisdom

Process

" Leave no stone unturned. "

" Your aim will be knowledge and wisdom, not the reflected glamour of fame. "

" I am a believer in the evolutionary process, and yet I have sympathy for the friends of mine who are creationists. I don't find the positions incompatible. "

" 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. "

" Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself. "

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Wisdom

Advice

Yourself

" None knows the weight of another's burden. "

" Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them. "

" Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. "

" 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. "

" Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom. "

" One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know. "

John Kenneth Galbraith

You

Economic

Greatest

" 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. "

" Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. "

" First appearance deceives many. "

" Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live. "

" I have no agenda except to be funny. Neither I or the writers profess to offer any worldly wisdom. "

" Humanity's legacy of stories and storytelling is the most precious we have. All wisdom is in our stories and songs. A story is how we construct our experiences. At the very simplest, it can be: 'He/she was born, lived, died.' Probably that is the template of our stories - a beginning, middle, and end. This structure is in our minds. "

" In the end, the real wisdom of menopause may be in questioning how fun or even sane this chore wheel called modern life actually is. "

" We are all responsible to Jesus first, and then, under him, to various other persons and offices. Discerning the path of love and obedience when two or more of these submissive relationships collide is a call to humble, Bible-saturated, spiritual wisdom. "

" The word 'career' and 'actor' really don't fit in the same paragraph, let alone sentence. There is no career structure for actors. "

" Films are fun, but life is much richer. "

" Wisdom may best arise from a humbling reality. "