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" To win without risk is to triumph without glory. "
Pierre Corneille
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" Turn your wounds into wisdom. "
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" What a company's been earning doesn't mean anything. What you have to look at is what people think it's going to earn. If you can see something in two years is going to be entirely different than the conventional wisdom, that's how you make money. "
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" Lion sounds that have not grown from the mouse may exude naked power... but cannot convey any wisdom or understanding... The initial steps on the path to courageous speech then are the first tentative steps into the parts of us that cannot speak. "
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" Ambition aspires to descend. "
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" Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish. "
Anne Bradstreet
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" With pride, there are many curses. With humility, there come many blessings. "
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" The less you talk, the more you're listened to. "
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" Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience. "
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" Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable. "
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" Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents. "
Khalil Gibran
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" My mom calls me an older soul because, growing up, she taught me stuff real early. Now I spend most of my time chasing wisdom, chasing understanding. "
Ray Lewis
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" In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by. "
Lucille Ball
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" Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use. "
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" Those who easily forgive invite offenses. "
Pierre Corneille
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" If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it. "
Michael Jordan
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" I have seen life from the top down and the bottom up. I know how it looks both ways. And I know there is wisdom and that there is hope. "
L. Ron Hubbard
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" The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind. "
Khalil Gibran
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" You can observe a lot by watching. "
Yogi Berra
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" Treachery is noble when aimed at tyranny. "
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" I'm a member of the 1960s generation. We didn't have any wisdom. "
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" Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom. "
Bertrand Russell
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" Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom. "
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" I have sympathy for young people, for their growing pains, but I balk when these growing pains are pushed into the foreground, when you make these young people the only vehicles of life's wisdom. "
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" What's unique about the Mormon Church is that it encourages inquiry. I really do think my research and religion are all on the same page. I never could have come up with the notion of disruptive innovations, which went against a lot of conventional wisdom, if I hadn't been raised to always be asking questions. "
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" When I was born, the wisdom was that homosexuality was an illness; that it was caused largely by somebody's mother, and a distorted relationship with the mother. And now, as I live my life - married to a husband, with kids - it's an identity. "
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" Each of us finds his unique vehicle for sharing with others his bit of wisdom. "
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" To vanquish without peril is to triumph without glory. "
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