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" 'Swan,' by Mary Oliver. Poems and prose. Reading from this book is as if visiting a very wise friend. There is wisdom and welcoming kindness on every page. "
Jessye Norman
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Wise
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" The philosophy of life is this: Life is not a struggle, not a tension... Life is bliss. It is eternal wisdom, eternal existence. "
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" I'm exploring the maturity, the wisdom that just comes from having gone around the sun 50 times. My experience is, 'Oh, I'm never really going to get it right. I'm never going to get it done. But that's not the point here.' The point is the journey. "
Melissa Etheridge
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" They are few in the midst of an overwhelming mass of brute force, and their submission is wisdom; but for a nation like England to submit to be robbed by any invader who chooses to visit her shores seemed to me to be nonsense. "
George Combe
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" Every silver lining has a cloud. "
Mary Kay Ash
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Silver
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" Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions. "
Laurence Sterne
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Story
" Any successful nominee should possess both the temperament to interpret the law and the wisdom to do so fairly. The next Supreme Court Justice should have a record of protecting individual rights and a strong willingness to put aside any political agenda. "
Bennie Thompson
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" I have no agenda except to be funny. Neither I or the writers profess to offer any worldly wisdom. "
Julia Louis-Dreyfus
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Funny
" If you want to go east, don't go west. "
Ramakrishna
West
East
Go
" Blessed are those who give without remembering and take without forgetting. "
Elizabeth Bibesco
Wisdom
Remembering
Forgetting
" War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end; it has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes. "
Thomas Paine
Progress
War
Human
" We can't really digest food unless there's hunger. So we can't really assimilate spiritual wisdom unless we feel the need for it. "
Radhanath Swami
Spiritual
Wisdom
Need
" Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action. "
Thomas Babington Macaulay
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Wisdom
Single
" Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself. "
Khalil Gibran
Wisdom
Too
Seek
" One part of wisdom is knowing what you don't need anymore and letting it go. "
Jane Fonda
Knowing
Anymore
Go
" Whatever religion or wisdom, spirituality and values are important to me and to the business. "
Isabelle Kocher
Religion
Wisdom
Me
" Given the unprecedented ignorance of the Bible in contemporary America, it is likely that more young Americans will only know the Noah of 'Noah.' We can only hope that the film offers even a fraction of the wisdom of the original. "
Dennis Prager
Wisdom
Bible
Ignorance
" Every speaker has a mouth; An arrangement rather neat. Sometimes it's filled with wisdom. Sometimes it's filled with feet. "
Robert Orben
Feet
Wisdom
Sometimes
" It is always our own self that we find at the end of the journey. The sooner we face that self, the better. "
Ella Maillart
End
Better
Self
" A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right. "
Thomas Paine
Habit
Long
Thinking
" We live in a culture that doesn't acknowledge or validate human intuition and doesn't encourage us to rely on our intuitive wisdom. "
Shakti Gawain
Culture
Intuition
Wisdom
" I'll come to you with gifts of knowledge, wisdom and truth. "
Barry White
Wisdom
You
Truth
" Public opinion is no more than this: what people think that other people think. "
Alfred Austin
More
Opinion
People
" Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life. "
Lord Byron
Life
Know
Wisdom
" Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom. "
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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" After 25-plus years as a lawyer, prosecutor, and defense attorney, I have developed a deep appreciation for both the wisdom of the law and the role that jurists play in framing the rights and responsibilities that define our society. "
Eliot Spitzer
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" I'm very accepting with my age. It's like notches on your belt: experience, wisdom, and a different kind of beauty. There comes a day when you've become comfortable in your skin. "
Zoe Saldana
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Beauty
Age
" 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. "
George Allen, Sr.
World
Earth
Best
" 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. "
Robert J. Shiller
Need
People
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" The difference between chirping out of turn and a faux pas depends on what kind of a bar you're in. "
Wilson Mizner
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You
" In world mythology, there are countless examples of tragic characters whose greatest strength is also the source of their undoing. But the ancient Greeks and Romans also held the view that acceptance is the beginning of wisdom. "
Simon Van Booy
Wisdom
Strength
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