Sidonie Gabrielle Colette (Colette) 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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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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I mix talents and friendship, which is not very professional, but it's my way of thinking. So I love Azzedine Alaia, because I've known him for 30 years, and he's making my dresses most of the time.
Carine Roitfeld
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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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No thought for the hereafter have the wise, for on this very earth they live in paradise
Angelus Silesius
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Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.
Lord Byron
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Human history is not the product of the wise direction of human reason, but is shaped by the forces of emotion-our dreams, our pride, our greed, our fears, and our desire for revenge.
Lin Yutang
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There's so much more that I want to do. Of course it's great what has happened so far: Ultra, Coachella, EDC. But still, production-wise and show-wise, I'd love to play a show at Madison Square Garden. Stuff like that is beyond my imagination.
Martin Garrix
Area21
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Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Friendship is such an important thing to me, and I feel like the people who I love and help keep me whole - I can't imagine a life without them.
Jacqueline Woodson
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Yes, as an oppressed people, American Indians have this epic burden, but first and foremost, they're human: sometimes a mess, sometimes funny or sad, at times very wise, and other times not wise at all - a lot like me.
Alexandra Fuller
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They do sometimes go crazy, these people, because the world is telling them not to want the things they want. It can seem saner to give up-But then one goes insane from giving up.
E. Lockhart
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I never failed. It just didn't work 10,000 times.
Thomas A. Edison
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The hackers don't want to destroy the network. They want to keep it running, so they can keep making money from it.
Vint Cerf
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In general, sincerity is awkward.
Alexandra Petri
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It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
