Diogenes Quotes
There is only a finger's difference between a wise man and a fool.
Diogenes
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Both my grandmothers had upright pianos, and I just knew how to play since I was a child. Nobody taught me. I sounded like a grown-up, and then I learned how to read music. I played so well by ear I could fool the teacher to believe I could play the notes. She'd make the mistake of playing the song once, and I could play it.
Valerie Simpson
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Wise and humane management of the patient is the best safeguard against infection.
Florence Nightingale
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Everybody gets typecast in movies, but you have to make wise choices. I'd say around 90 percent of movie casting is about the way you look, so you have to fight that. If producers had their way, I'd only be in action films, but I'm interested in a more varied career than that.
Famke Janssen
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Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.
Samuel Johnson
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A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.
Samuel Johnson
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The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.
Lao Tzu
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The fools think I am writing algebra but what I am really writing is geometry.
Ernest Hemingway
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Perhaps true faith is a form of insanity.
Kristine Kathryn Rusch
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There is today a frightful disappearance of living species, be they plants or animals. And it's clear that the density of human beings has become so great, if I can say so, that they have begun to poison themselves. And the world in which I am finishing my existence is no longer a world that I like.
Claude Levi-Strauss
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So sweet and delicious do I become, when I am in bed with a man who, I sense, loves and enjoys me, that the pleasure I bring excels all delight, so the knot of love, however tight it seemed before, is tied tighter still.
Veronica Franco
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There is only a finger's difference between a wise man and a fool.
Diogenes
