Euripides Quotes
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Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.
Isaac Asimov
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Rushing to war is not a wise course of action.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
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The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.
Walter Savage Landor
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First off, no one award-wise ever rewards comedy, which is... whatever. I don't care about that.
Adam McKay
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When we were subjected to a vicious character assassination campaign orchestrated by senior White House officials and championed by their allies in the right-wing echo chamber, Hillary reached out to us. Her counsel during that tumultuous period was as timely as it was wise.
Valerie Plame
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The man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to keep.
E. W. Howe
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It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods.
H. L. Mencken
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I don't know what I'm qualified to do, film-wise... So it's really down to a director or a casting director to find something that they think I could do.
Larry Mullen, Jr. U2
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Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
H. G. Wells
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The Bible is proved to be a revelation from God, by the reasonableness and holiness of its precepts; all its commands, exhortations, and promises having the most direct tendency to make men wise, holy, and happy in themselves, and useful to one another.
Adam Clarke
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The team is in great shape, the coaching staff, the front office. Just things feel really good chemistry-wise across the board.
Dan Gilbert
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Putting is not an art, it's a dreaded evil. No wise man ever said that.
Dan Jenkins
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The All-Wise Maker attaches hundreds of instances of wisdom to each of the beings in the palace of the universe and equips them to perform hundreds of duties. To all trees He bestows instances of wisdom to the number of its fruits and gives duties to the number of its flowers.
Said Nursi
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I write for children because I am interested in fantasy and the possibilities for experience of all kinds before the time of compromise. I believe that children are far more perceptive and wise than American books give them credit for being.
Natalie Babbitt
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Wise and humane management of the patient is the best safeguard against infection.
Florence Nightingale
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Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.
Samuel Johnson
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Libraries keep the records on behalf of all humanity. the unique and the absurd, the wise and the fragments of stupidity.
Vartan Gregorian
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Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
Samuel Johnson
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In his face there came to be a brooding peace that is seen most often in the faces of the very sorrowful or the very wise. But still he wandered through the streets of the town, always silent and alone.
Carson McCullers
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One has occasionally to pocket one’s pride and readjust one’s ideas.
Agatha Christie
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Every child instinctively heads toward dirt and filth unless you pull it back.
Elfriede Jelinek
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My great-great-great-grandfather or something, I think his father came before him; but, in the 1840s, he was a circuit-riding Baptist preacher.
Jeff Sessions
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A wise fellow who is also worthless always charms the rabble.
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