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" Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life. "
Lord Byron
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" We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it. "
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" I think we do need to try to not just rely on the central bank to, in its wisdom, adjust interest rates, but allow for people to avoid being exposed to inflation risk. "
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" We humans have lost the wisdom of genuinely resting and relaxing. We worry too much. We don't allow our bodies to heal, and we don't allow our minds and hearts to heal. "
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" Each of us has been put on earth with the ability to do something well. We cheat ourselves and the world if we don't use that ability as best we can. "
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" Our ascendancy of the past two centuries - first Europe and then the U.S. - has bred a western-centric mentality: the West is the fount of all wisdom. We think of ourselves as open-minded, but our sense of superiority has closed our minds. We never entertained the idea that China could surpass the U.S. "
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" To know one's self is wisdom, but not to know one's neighbors is genius. "
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" If you want to go east, don't go west. "
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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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" The best prophet of the future is the past. "
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" It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own. "
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" Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone. "
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Left
" If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself. "
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" Please all, and you will please none. "
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" It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err. "
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