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Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not beauty. Beauty is not love. Love is not music. Music is the best.
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It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
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It is hard to go beyond your public. If they are satisfied with cheap performance, you will not easily arrive at better. If they know what is good, and require it. you will aspire and burn until you achieve it. But from time to time, in history, men are born a whole age too soon.
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It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?
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It isn't a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream.
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It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously.
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It's not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.
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It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
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It's true that heroes are inspiring, but mustn't they also do some rescuing if they are to be worthy of their name? Would Wonder Woman matter if she only sent commiserating telegrams to the distressed?
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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of face within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.
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Let your enemies be disarmed by the gentleness of your manner, but at the same time let them feel, the steadiness of your resentment.
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Life always rides in strength to victory, not through internationalism... but only through the direct responsibility of the individual
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Mercy but murders, pardoning those that kill.
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More than anything else, I believe it's our decisions, not the conditions of our lives, that determine our destiny.
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Most of us ask for advice when we know the answer but we want a different one.
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No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.
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Not to love is not to live or it is to live a living death. The life, that goes out in love to all, is the life, that is full and rich and continually expanding in beauty and power.
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Old age is not a disease - it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.
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Our duty is to believe that for which we have sufficient evidence, and to suspend our judgment when we have not.
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