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" If you want a thing done well, do it yourself. "
Napoleon Bonaparte
Yourself
You
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" Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two. A constant coming and going: wisdom lies in the momentary. "
Octavio Paz
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" If you have the insight of non-self, if you have the insight of impermanence, you should make that insight into a concentration that you keep alive throughout the day. Then what you say, what you think, and what you do will then be in the light of that wisdom and you will avoid making mistakes and creating suffering. "
Thich Nhat Hanh
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" The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know. "
Napoleon Bonaparte
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" We know there is a deep reservoir of food wisdom out there, or else humans would not have survived to the extent we have. Much of this food wisdom is worth preserving and reviving and heeding. "
Michael Pollan
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" Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom. "
Euripides
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" People usually compare the computer to the head of the human being. I would say that hardware is the bone of the head, the skull. The semiconductor is the brain within the head. The software is the wisdom. And data is the knowledge. "
Masayoshi Son
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Data
" Slow and steady wins the race. "
Robert Lloyd
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Slow
Steady
" One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know. "
John Kenneth Galbraith
You
Economic
Greatest
" People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way. "
A. C. Benson
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Way
Right
" If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there. "
Lewis Carroll
Going
Wisdom
Will
" Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one. "
Diogenes
Man
Wise Man
Wisdom
" Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life. "
Herman Hesse
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Moment
Thoughts
" I believe that when an elder dies, a library is burned: vast sums of wisdom and knowledge are lost. Throughout the world libraries are ablaze with scant attention. "
Elizabeth Kapu'uwailani Lindsey
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Lost
Wisdom
" Repeat anything often enough and it will start to become you. "
Tom Hopkins
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Become
Enough
" In an era in which war and terrorism - at home and abroad - are often based on racial, religious and ethnic differences, rediscovering the wisdom of love and compassion may help us increase our survival at a time when an increasingly divided country and world so badly need it. "
Dean Ornish
Wisdom
Home
Love
" The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work. "
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Lost
Never
Sum
" You should never ask a horse or an actor to do something they cannot do. Wisdom will teach you to find out what they can do and then make it easy for them. "
Tommy Lee Jones
" A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one. "
Lord John Russell
Many
Wisdom
Wit
" 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. "
Charles Inglis
Better
Government
Happiness
" Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. "
Napoleon Bonaparte
Famous
Glory
Forever
" I'm particularly interested in black swan events: unprecedented surprises that destroy the conventional wisdom about how the world works. "
Paolo Bacigalupi
Events
World
Wisdom
" Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next. "
Herbert Hoover
Knowing
Times
Next
" In complete darkness we are all the same, it is only our knowledge and wisdom that separates us, don't let your eyes deceive you. "
Janet Jackson
Darkness
Eyes
Knowledge
" Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. "
Henry Ford
Wisdom
Eyes
Goal
" When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield. "
Quintilian
Defeat
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Wisdom
" My father said there were two kinds of people in the world: givers and takers. The takers may eat better, but the givers sleep better. "
Marlo Thomas
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" Around '93, '94, the conventional wisdom about the Internet was that it was a toy for academics and researchers. So it was very, very underestimated for about two years. "
Marc Andreessen
Toy
About
Internet
" And I pray thee, loving Jesus, that as Thou hast graciously given me to drink in with delight the words of Thy knowledge, so Thou wouldst mercifully grant me to attain one day to Thee, the fountain of all wisdom and to appear forever before Thy face. "
Venerable Bede
Wisdom
Words
Me
" I covered my face because they had taken my wisdom teeth out. "
Josh Brolin
Out
Teeth
Taken
" You must learn day by day, year by year to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are interested in, the more you enjoy, the more you are indignant about, the more you have left when anything happens. "
Ethel Barrymore
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You
Day