Morgan Freeman Quotes
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It takes a wise man to recognize a wise man.
Xenophanes
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History is a tool used by politicians to justify their intentions.
Ted Koppel
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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 wise man does not grow old, but ripens.
Victor Hugo
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All bad art is the result of good intentions.
Oscar Wilde
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It is always with the best intentions that the worst work is done.
Oscar Wilde
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The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.
Aristotle
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He was a wise man who originated the idea of God.
Euripides
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It is the wise man's part to leave in darkness everything that is ugly.
Euripides
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It's the wise man who stays home when he's drunk.
Euripides
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These are the signs of a wise man: to reprove nobody, to praise nobody, to blame nobody, nor even to speak of himself or his own merits.
Epictetus
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When a wise man points at the moon the imbecile examines the finger.
Confucius
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A fool marvels at rare things, but a wise man at common ones.
Confucius
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The great mountain must collapse, the mighty beam must break and the wise man wither like a plant.
Confucius
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The wise man is one who knows what he does not know.
Lao Tzu
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The Wise Man is square but not sharp, honest but not not malign, straight but not severe, bright but not dazzling.
Lao Tzu
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For the wise man, every day is a festival.
Plutarch
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Wisdom is not communicable. The wisdom which a wise man tries to communicate always sounds foolish.
Hermann Hesse
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We are not utopians, we do not “dream” of dispensing at once with all administration, with all subordination. These anarchist dreams, based upon incomprehension of the tasks of the proletarian dictatorship, are totally alien to Marxism, and, as a matter of fact, serve only to postpone the socialist revolution until people are different. No, we want the socialist revolution with people as they are now, with people who cannot dispense with subordination, control, and "foremen and accountants".
Vladimir Lenin
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To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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I had good blocks, ... My fullback turned his guy inside and I cut it up on the hash marks. The free safety was coming up but I had the speed to get past him. I got some great blocks.
Adam Morris
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Through my years as a writer, I've learnt how to simplify the message and pen songs that have a more specific quality - it's not just about my ego and trying to meet girls.
Jason Mraz
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I once heard a wise man say there are no perfect men. Only perfect intentions.
Morgan Freeman