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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 When you throw dirt you lose ground
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 Nostalgia is a seductive liar
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 Home~ where you grow up wanting to leave, and grow old wanting to return
A wise man knows little, a fool knows everything We suffer more in imagination than in reality -Seneca
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
Direction is more important than speed Darkness cannot drove out darkness: only light can do that _Martin Luther King, Jr.
Truth uttered before its time is dangerous -Mencius All that is necessary for evil to succeed is that good men do nothing.  -Edmund Burke
A good education is less costly than the lack of one Everyone pushes a falling fence - Chinese Proverb
Bad advice is the easiest to take -French proverb They deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth. -Plato
Knowledge without integrity is dangerous -Samuel Johnson Not every successful man is a good father but every good father is a successful man
What we learn from history is that we fail to learn from history Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter -Martin Luther King
Every ass loves its bray Reality is a collective hunch -Mel Seesholtz
Smart solves problems. Wise avoids them Who knows little, doubts little -Spanish proverb
We are complicit when we can act but do not Imagination is the preview of life’s coming attractions
Honesty is praised and left to starve It is better to question without deciding than to decide without questioning
The system is you A fool and water take only the easy way
Everything is temporary What you feel in yourself, you see in the world -Afghan proverb
A good library will contain something to offend everyone Grief is simply love that has lost its home
Nothing good ever comes of violence. -Martin Luther
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