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Winning is only half of it. Having fun is the other half.
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Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.
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Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.
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Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.
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Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.
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Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.
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Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil - not the strength to choose between the two.
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Wise men are not wise at all hours, and will speak five times from their taste or their humor, to once from their reason.
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Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which, before their union, were not perceived to have any relation.
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With a small town mentality, you make a decision very early on as to whether you are going to do everything by the book or just go your own way and not care.
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With any work worth its salt, you have to trust the author enough to take its measure. And if you apply too many preconceptions, you are not taking its measure.
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With communication technology in general, there's a kind of certain critical mass of people. Once you get to 15% of the world's entire population using one communication technology, that's a big deal. It's beyond the theoretical at this point. The people who think it's a fad have probably not been paying that much attention.
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With every deed you are sowing a seed, though the harvest you may not see.
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With every song I have a person in mind who, in a perfect world, would perform with me. Usually I end up not getting that person, and I'm forced to settle for someone else.
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With God, what is terrible is that one never knows whether it's not just a trick of the devil.
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With his deeds, not only words, President Obama has revitalized our struggling space program.
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With memory set smarting like a reopened wound, a man's past is not simply a dead history, an outworn preparation of the present: it is not a repented error shaken loose from the life: it is a still quivering part of himself, bringing shudders and bitter flavors and the tinglings of a merited shame.
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