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" It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see. "
Henry David Thoreau
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" When a thing is done, it's done. Don't look back. Look forward to your next objective. "
George C. Marshall
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" I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion. "
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Nigel Farage
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" Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense. "
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" Great men, unknown to their generation, have their fame among the great who have preceded them, and all true worldly fame subsides from their high estimate beyond the stars. "
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" I learned some valuable lessons about the legislative process, the importance of bipartisan cooperation and the wisdom of taking small steps to get a big job done. "
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" It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance. "
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" The key to wisdom is this - constant and frequent questioning, for by doubting we are led to question and by questioning we arrive at the truth. "
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" Women are stronger than men - they do not die of wisdom. "
James Stephens
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" I praise loudly. I blame softly. "
Catherine the Great
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" Big money is not a good thing for a little soul: it will only ensnare his feet, and he will fall to his ruin. Wealth is safe only for those who have a wealth of wisdom. "
Edwin Markham
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" It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important. "
Arthur Conan Doyle
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" What is man's ultimate direction in life? It is to look for love, truth, virtue, and beauty. "
Shinichi Suzuki
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" All wisdom does not reside in Delhi. "
P. Chidambaram
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" 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. "
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Time
" The biggest handicap in research is an ability to think outside the box. The handicap is being encumbered by all the conventional wisdom in a given field. "
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" Never accept ultimatums, conventional wisdom, or absolutes. "
Christopher Reeve
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" By the time you've reached your sixties, you do know that one day you will die, and knowing that is at least the beginning of wisdom. "
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" Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand. "
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" Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache. "
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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" The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly. "
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Wisdom
Less
" Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end. "
Leonard Nimoy
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End
Beginning
" I have found that no exertion of the legs can bring two minds much nearer to one another. "
Henry David Thoreau
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