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" 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
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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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" Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more. "
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" Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of 'em: wit be my faculty, and pleasure my occupation, and let father Time shake his glass. "
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" Much wisdom often goes with fewest words. "
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" I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge. "
Igor Stravinsky
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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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" It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things. "
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" Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them. "
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" Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread. "
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" He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose. "
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" I'm not wise, but the beginning of wisdom is there; it's like relaxing into - and an acceptance of - things. "
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" My mind is my own church. "
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" Because you are women, people will force their thinking on you, their boundaries on you. They will tell you how to dress, how to behave, who you can meet and where you can go. Don't live in the shadows of people's judgement. Make your own choices in the light of your own wisdom. "
Amitabh Bachchan
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" Wisdom is found only in truth. "
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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" The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one. "
Honore de Balzac
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" It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen. "
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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" Patience is the companion of wisdom. "
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" Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself. "
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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. "
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" Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness. "
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" We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us. "
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" Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only. "
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" I love wisdom. And you can never be great at anything unless you love it. Not be in love with it, but love the thing, admire the thing. And it seems that if you love the thing, and you don't just want to possess it, it will find you. "
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" One of the best pieces of wisdom I ever got is you work because you work, meaning you work because you're saying yes to things, and you're connecting with people. "
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" What makes Superman a hero is not that he has power, but that he has the wisdom and the maturity to use the power wisely. From an acting point of view, that's how I approached the part. "
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" 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 topic 'Farm Wisdom' is not a gospel doctrine or scriptural topic, although I found considerable scriptural support for the lessons learned on the farm. "
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" 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. "
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" It used to be, it is accepted scientific wisdom the Earth is flat, and this heretic named Galileo was branded a denier. "
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" Earthly wisdom is doing what comes naturally. Godly wisdom is doing what the Holy Spirit compels us to do. "
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