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" There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain. "

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" It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters. "

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" Community organizing is all about building grassroots support. It's about identifying the people around you with whom you can create a common, passionate cause. And it's about ignoring the conventional wisdom of company politics and instead playing the game by very different rules. "

" I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work. "

" Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one's aim. "

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" All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else. "

" Strength and wisdom are not opposing values. "

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" Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure. "

" Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence. "

" It's not the having, it's the getting. "

Elizabeth Taylor

" Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry. "

" As a society, we come up lacking in many of the marks of compassion and wisdom by which we measure ourselves as civilized. "

" Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it. "

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" Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it. "

Henry Ward Beecher

" The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practiced, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. "

" Whatever religion or wisdom, spirituality and values are important to me and to the business. "

Isabelle Kocher

" Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom. "

" States are as the men, they grow out of human characters. "

" We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started. "

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" The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind. "

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" Wisdom is a sacred communion. "

" The problem lies with us: we've become addicted to experts. We've become addicted to their certainty, their assuredness, their definitiveness, and in the process, we have ceded our responsibility, substituting our intellect and our intelligence for their supposed words of wisdom. "

" Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar. "

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" In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause. "

" Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. "

" No one wants advice - only corroboration. "

" Wonder is the feeling of the philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder. "