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Opportunity doesn’t knock, it only presents itself after you beat down the door.
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Our age is being forcibly reminded that knowledge is no substitute for wisdom. Far and away the most important thing in human life is living it.
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Our American past always speaks to us with two voices: the voice of the past, and the voice of the present. We are always asking two quite different questions. Historians reading the words of John Winthrop usually ask, What did they mean to him? Citizens ask, What do they mean to us? Historians are trained to seek the original meaning; all of us want to know the present meaning.
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Our life is like a land journey: too even and easy and dull over long distances across the plains, too hard and painful up the steep grades; but on the summits of the mountain, you have a magnificent view – and feel exalted – and your eyes are full of happy tears – and you want to sing – and you wish you had wings! And then – you can’t stay there, but you must continue your journey – you begin climbing down the other side, so busy with your footholds that your summit experience is forgotten.
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Our minds thus grow in spots; and like grease spots, the spots spread. But we let them spread as little as possible: we keep unaltered as much of our old knowledge, as many of our old prejudices and beliefs, as we can.
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Our rich texture of racial, religious, and political diversity will be a godsend in the 21st century. Great rewards will come to those who can live together, learn together, work together, forge new ties that bind together.
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Our wisdom is no less at fortune’s mercy than our wealth.
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Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt.
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Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain. Kahlil Gibran quotes
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Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable.
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People are the common denominator of progress. So… no improvement is possible with unimproved people, and advance is certain when people are liberated and educated.
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People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I’m not a crook. I earned everything I’ve got.
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People who feel the world is tilted against them will spawn the kind of hatred that is very dangerous for all of us.
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People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
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People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.
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People who r afraid 2 fall, ll never fly
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Perfect wisdom has four parts: Wisdom, the principle of doing things aright. Justice, the principle of doing things equally in public and private. Fortitude, the principle of not fleeing danger, but meeting it. Temperance, the principle of subduing desires and living moderately. Plato quotes
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Perfection doesn’t exist… only good attempts.
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Politics, like theater, is one of those things where you’ve got to be wise enough to know when to leave.
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Preceptive wisdom that has not been vivified by life has in itself no affinity for life.
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