Flann O'Brien Quotes
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Turn your wounds into wisdom.
Oprah Winfrey
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Patience is the companion of wisdom.
Saint Augustine
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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.
Beau Bridges
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Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
H. L. Mencken
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The state must be the first to be organized and totally committed to serving the interests of the people.
Samora Machel
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Smarter is always the answer.
Samuel J. Palmisano
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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.
Earl Weaver
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We must first and foremost defend Hungary's independence and sovereignty, and, if needed, we must regain it.
Viktor Orban
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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.
H. R. McMaster
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The sweetest of all sounds is praise.
Xenophon
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My first dunk was actually in sixth grade.
Vince Carter
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I'm the first American designer who went all over the world.
Oleg Cassini
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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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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.
Hannah Storm
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I wrote my first novel when my daughter was about six months old.
Gayle Forman
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If I recall correctly, I think I signed my first contract with Tor in 1983.
L. E. Modesitt
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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.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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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.
Natalie Cole
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My library is filled with UN condemnations.
Augusto Pinochet
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The interest of the dealers, however, in any particular branch of trade or manufactures, is always in some respects different from, and even opposite to, that of the public. To widen the market and to narrow the competition, is always the interest of the dealers.
Adam Smith
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Being a lady does not require silence.
Betty Ford
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There is no reason why any public school district in our state should be on a four-day school week. If anything, we should be extending the school year.
Victor Mitchell
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Let a man (as most men do) rate themselves as the highest Value they can; yet their true Value is no more than it is esteemed by others.
Thomas Hobbes
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The first beginnings of wisdom...is to ask questions but never to answer any.
Flann O'Brien