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" If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise. "
William Butler Yeats
Wise
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" Strength and wisdom are not opposing values. "
William J. Clinton
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" Age is a terrible avenger. The lessons of life give you so much to work with, but by the time you've got all this great wisdom, you don't get to be young anymore. "
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" Except for the grace of God, I would be nobody - and that grace is the opposite of merit - human labour, education or human wisdom. "
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" We learn from each other. We learn from others' mistakes, from their experience, their wisdom. It makes it easier for us to come to better decisions in our own lives. "
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" Wisdom is not acquired save as the result of investigation. "
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" A charming woman... doesn't follow the crowd. She is herself. "
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" How far away the stars seem, and how far is our first kiss, and ah, how old my heart. "
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" Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of 'em: wit be my faculty, and pleasure my occupation, and let father Time shake his glass. "
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" 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. "
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" What could be more lonely than to be enveloped in silence, to be the last of your people to speak your native tongue, to have no way to pass on the wisdom of the elders, to anticipate the promise of the children. This tragic fate is indeed the plight of someone somewhere roughly every two weeks. "
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" Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time. "
Theodore Roosevelt
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" Let deeds match words. "
Plautus
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" It's very hard to know what wisdom is. "
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" No one has a monopoly on truth, and science continues to advance. Yesterday's heresies may be tomorrow's conventional wisdom. "
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Tomorrow
" 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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" This age thinks better of a gilded fool Than of a threadbare saint in wisdom's school. "
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" Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity. "
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" I had more energy at 50. On the other hand, at 75, I've probably got a little more wisdom and good judgment than I had at 50 because I've got more experience. But I haven't really changed. I'm still driven by the same philosophy. "
Ted Turner
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" It is better to rust out than wear out. "
Edwin Markham
Rust
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" Wisdom is humble that he knows no more. "
William Cowper
More
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" To comprehend the Wisdom of this Injunction the better, and explain the Duty before us, it should be considered, that Government is the only Means by which human Happiness can be attained. "
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" Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself. "
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" There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still. "
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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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. "
Rollo May
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" Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one's aim. "
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" Some coaches pray for wisdom. I pray for 260-pound tackles. They'll give me plenty of wisdom. "
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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. "
Tom Peters
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" The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations. "
William Feather
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" Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish. "
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