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"How could I have been so ignorant? she thinks. So stupid, so unseeing, so given over to carelessness. But without such ignorance, such carelessness, how could we live? If you knew what was going to happen, if you knew everything that was going to happen next—if you knew in advance the consequences of your own actions—you'd be doomed. You'd be as ruined as God. You'd be a stone. You'd never eat or drink or laugh or get out of bed in the morning. You'd never love anyone, ever again. You'd never dare to."
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"Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he'll buy a funny hat. Talk to a hungry man about fish, and you're a consultant."
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"When you're in a Slump,you're not in for much fun. Un-slumping yourselfis not easily done."
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"A desire not to butt into other people's business is at least eighty percent of all human wisdom."
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"When you've learned to laugh at the things that should be laughed at, and not to laugh at those that shouldn't, you've got wisdom and understanding."
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"The wise are not wise because they make no mistakes. They are wise because they correct their mistakes as soon as they recognize them."
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"أولادكم ليسوا لكمأولادكم أبناء الحياة المشتاقة إلى نفسها, بكم يأتون إلى العالم, ولكن ليس منكم.ومع أنهم يعيشون معكم, فهم ليسوا ملكاً لكم.أنتم تستطيعون أن تمنحوهم محبتكم, ولكنكم لا تقدرون أن تغرسوا فيهم بذور أفكاركم, لأن لهم أفكارأً خاصةً بهم.وفي طاقتكم أن تصنعوا المساكم لأجسادكم.ولكن نفوسهم لا تقطن في مساكنكم.فهي تقطن في مسكن الغد, الذي لا تستطيعون أن تزوروه حتى ولا في أحلامكم.وإن لكم أن تجاهدوا لكي تصيروا مثلهم.ولكنكم عبثاً تحاولون أن تجعلوهم مثلكم.لأن الحياة لا ترجع إلى الوراء, ولا تلذ لها الإقامة في منزل الأمس.أنتم الأقواس وأولادكم سهام حية قد رمت بها الحياة عن أقواسكم.فإن رامي السهام ينظر العلامة المنصوبة على طريق اللانهاية, فيلويكم بقدرته لكي تكون سهامه سريعة بعيدة المدى.لذلك, فليكن التواؤكم بين يدي رامي السهام الحكيم لأجل المسرة والغبطة.لأنه, كما يحب السهم الذي يطير من قوسه, هكذا يحب القوس الذي يثبت بين يديه."
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"Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country."
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"It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves."
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"In this way, humans’ creative abilities were being used against themselves to create a reality for their masters. Why go through all the hassle of creating a planetary reality when you can hijack the humans’ co-creative abilities and program them to create a reality that the Masters wanted?"
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"Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting."
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"My father always used to say, Don't raise your voice. Improve your argument. Good sense does not always lie with the loudest shouters, nor can we say that a large, unruly crowd is always the best arbiter of what is right."
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"When they say the sky's the limit to me that's really true"
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"The worst thing: to give yourself away in exchange for not enough love."
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"Life doesn't make any sense, and we all pretend it does. Comedy's job is to point out that it doesn't make sense, and that it doesn't make much difference anyway."
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"Wisdom comes through suffering. Trouble, with its memories of pain,Drips in our hearts as we try to sleep,So men against their will Learn to practice moderation. Favours come to us from gods."
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"A bird is safe in its nest - but that is not what its wings are made for."
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"To acquire knowledge, one must study;but to acquire wisdom, one must observe."
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"Conceit spoils the finest genius."
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"You can have many great ideas in your head, but what makes the difference is the action. Without action upon an idea, there will be no manifestation, no results, and no reward"
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