Flann O'Brien Quotes
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Turn your wounds into wisdom.
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Patience is the companion of wisdom.
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Second, this epic tale allows the audience to actually listen to the Native Americans and receive their wisdom. Spielberg conveys the respect for Native Americans that is normally lacking in Western films.
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Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
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The state must be the first to be organized and totally committed to serving the interests of the people.
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Smarter is always the answer.
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The key step for an infielder is the first one, to the left or right, but before the ball is hit.
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We must first and foremost defend Hungary's independence and sovereignty, and, if needed, we must regain it.
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Much of the conventional wisdom associated with Vietnam was highly inaccurate. Far from an inevitable result of the imperative to contain communism, the war was only made possible through lies and deceptions aimed at the American public, Congress, and members of Lyndon Johnson's own administration.
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The sweetest of all sounds is praise.
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My first dunk was actually in sixth grade.
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I'm the first American designer who went all over the world.
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First off, no one award-wise ever rewards comedy, which is... whatever. I don't care about that.
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I was in Charlotte, N.C., when they launched the NBA team there, the Charlotte Hornets. And the first guy to roll into town was Carolina native Michael Jordan.
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I wrote my first novel when my daughter was about six months old.
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If I recall correctly, I think I signed my first contract with Tor in 1983.
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If your response to the first black president is to say they weren't born in this country... you might be a white supremacist.
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I was pretty young, but because of that first record, 'Cole Espanol,' we took our first trip - well, my first trip - to Mexico.
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I always think it is kind of funny when it comes to wisdom, and I say God has a sense of humor, because my middle name is Solomon, and I love the Book of Proverbs which is written by Solomon, and I have read from the Book of Proverbs to start and end every day since I was 14.
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In most cases the favorable price performance will be accompanied by a well-defined improvement in the average earnings, in the dividend, and in the balance-sheet position. Thus in the long run the market test and the ordinary business test of a successful equity commitment tend to be largely identical.
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Drugs is like getting up and having a cup of tea in the morning.
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All desirable things... are desirable either for the pleasure inherent in themselves, or as a means to the promotion of pleasure and the prevention of pain.
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You can think deeper and deeper and deeper and deeper into a subject, depending on what you are writing about.
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The first beginnings of wisdom...is to ask questions but never to answer any.
