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" Wisdom is a sacred communion. "
Victor Hugo
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" One of the hardest tasks is to extract continually from one's soul an almost inexhaustible ill will. "
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" Nobility of spirit has more to do with simplicity than ostentation, wisdom rather than wealth, commitment rather than ambition. "
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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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" Knowledge is going to make you stronger. Knowledge is going to let you control your life. Knowledge is going to give you the wisdom to teach their children. Knowledge is the thing that makes you smile in the face of disaster. "
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" A mistake is simply another way of doing things. "
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" My childhood began, as everybody's childhood begins, with prejudices. Man finds prejudices beside his cradle, puts them from him a little in the course of his career, and often, alas! takes to them again in his old age. "
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" Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors. "
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" A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one. "
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" You must learn day by day, year by year to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are interested in, the more you enjoy, the more you are indignant about, the more you have left when anything happens. "
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" Experience is knowledge; but knowledge, when it is sought only as a material resource, is not always a blessing. Experience is wisdom; but wisdom, with those who lack vision, is not always power. Experience is tolerance; but tolerance, when it is induced by apathy, is not in the least a virtue. "
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" Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability. "
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" Trouble shared is trouble halved. "
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" Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired. "
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" Doubt the conventional wisdom unless you can verify it with reason and experiment. "
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" Love, in the eyes of the world, is either a carnal appetite or a vague fancy, which possession extinguishes or absence destroys. That is why it is commonly said, with a strange abuse of words, that passion does not endure. "
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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. "
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" It is while you are patiently toiling at the little tasks of life that the meaning and shape of the great whole of life dawn on you. "
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" The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom. "
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" The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone. "
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