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Wisdom lives between the facts To test a man's character, give him power. -Abraham Lincoln
If you can set your principles aside they are not your principles Experience is a hard teacher. It gives the test before the lesson
The words of an enemy hurt less than the silence of a friend Happiness makes up in height what it lacks in length -Robert Frost
Wisdom comes when we realize how little we understand -Socrates Worry is a poor use of imagination
The bad news: Nothing is permanent. The good news: Nothing is permanent A good friend is the best mirror
Children learn more from models than from critics We suffer more in imagination than in reality -Seneca
Eternity laughs at our worries The means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek -MLK
Facts seldom change what someone wants to believe A wise man knows little, a fool knows everything
A wise man values his enemies more than a fool values his friends Direction is more important than speed
No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible -Stanislaw Lec Don’t believe anything that you are unwilling to doubt
Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see. -Schopenhauer The nail that sticks up will be hammered down
All that is necessary for evil to succeed is that good men do nothing. -Edmund Burke Darkness cannot drove out darkness: only light can do that _Martin Luther King, Jr.
Imagination is the preview of life’s coming attractions Everyone pushes a falling fence - Chinese Proverb
Bad advice is the easiest to take -French proverb Home~ where you grow up wanting to leave, and grow old wanting to return
Knowledge without integrity is dangerous -Samuel Johnson They deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth. -Plato
Grief is simply love that has lost its home Who knows little, doubts little -Spanish proverb
What we learn from history is that we fail to learn from history Not every successful man is a good father but every good father is a successful man
Smart solves problems. Wise avoids them Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter -Martin Luther King
If you have no good reason to stay, that's a good reason to go A good library will contain something to offend everyone
Reality is a collective hunch -Mel Seesholtz Every ass loves its bray
The system is you If your friends never challenge your beliefs, they’re fans, not friends
Honesty is praised and left to starve What you feel in yourself, you see in the world -Afghan proverb
It is better to question without deciding than to decide without questioning Imagination is more important than knowledge -Albert Einstein
A fool and water take only the easy way There is never enough time if you do not begin
Nothing good ever comes of violence. -Martin Luther Truth uttered before its time is dangerous -Mencius
Everything is temporary We are complicit when we can act but do not
Love survives all but neglect Prejudice is an emotional commitment to ignorance
Measure a society not by its rich but by its poor If you always do what you always did you'll always get what you always got
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