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" Strength and wisdom are not opposing values. "
William J. Clinton
Opposing
Values
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" To avoid entangling alliances has been a maxim of our policy ever since the days of Washington, and its wisdom no one will attempt to dispute. "
James Buchanan
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" People used to grow up in small communities where folk wisdom was passed down. But we don't live there anymore. We can't go next door to your aunt and ask her for the answers. "
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" First appearance deceives many. "
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" I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures. "
Lao Tzu
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" Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable. "
John Patrick
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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. "
Thich Nhat Hanh
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" For myself, I think that those who cultivate wisdom and believe themselves able to instruct their fellow-citizens as to their interests are least likely to become partisans of violence. They are too well aware that to violence attach enmities and dangers, whereas results as good may be obtained by persuasion safely and amicably. "
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" The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are. "
John Burroughs
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" Where can we find greater structural clarity than in the wooden buildings of old? Where else can we find such unity of material, construction and form? here, the wisdom of whole generations is stored. "
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
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" The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark. "
Michelangelo
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" It is good even for old men to learn wisdom. "
Aeschylus
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Old Men
" Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it. "
Rabindranath Tagore
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Everything
Us
" Full of wisdom are the ordinations of fate. "
Friedrich Schiller
Fate
Wisdom
Full
" Start wide, expand further, and never look back. "
Arnold Schwarzenegger
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" My company survives because I've learned to respect the ideas of people younger than me and recognize when my wisdom is obsolete. "
Robert Kiyosaki
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Than
Respect
" To keep your secret is wisdom; to expect others to keep it is folly. "
William Samuel Johnson
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Keep
" Contrary to popular wisdom, the mark of a great meeting is not how short it is or whether it ends on time. The key is whether it ends with clarity and commitment from participants. "
Patrick Lencioni
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" Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. "
George S. Patton
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" Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. "
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" A mistake is simply another way of doing things. "
Katharine Graham
Doing
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" Saddam Hussein didn't kill 3,100 people on Sept. 11. Osama bin Laden did, and as far as we know he's still alive. "
William J. Clinton
Know
Still
People
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Sophocles
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" All human wisdom works and has worries and grief as reward. "
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Wisdom
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Human
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" Everyone has always underestimated a company headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah. The New York boys thought they could take me on, that nobody out here has any knowledge or wisdom. "
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" He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe. "
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" We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already. "
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Stupid
" He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father's care. "
William Penn
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" Consider this point. It is a main point of true wisdom. Whenever there is an execution of purpose, there must be an agent. "
Adoniram Judson
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