Nilakanta Sri Ram Quotes
Wisdom is not a question of learning facts with the mind; it can only be acquired through perfection of living.
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Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.
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Outside of hip-hop, it was in comics that I most often found the aesthetics and wisdom of my world reflected.
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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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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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Your man Flavor Flav is living!
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Yes, gymnasts aim for perfection, but I never thought about the score. If that's what's in your mind, it will probably mess you up.
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Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.
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I like to come into my workspace and feel it's a living environment and not frozen, which is why I often change or add to the pictures on the wall.
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I made a living being a background singer for years.
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O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!
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People ask me what the definition of perfection, I said it's none: there is no definition of perfection.
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Let me now praise the American writer James Dickey. In 1970, his novel 'Deliverance' was published. I found it to be 278 pages that approached perfection. Its tightness of construction and assuredness of style reminded me of 'The Great Gatsby.'
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You're not looking for perfection in your partner. Perfection is all about the ego. With soulmate love, you know that true love is what happens when disappointment sets in - and you're willing to deal maturely with these disappointments.
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God in his wisdom made the fly And then forgot to tell us why.
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You may think, passer-by, that FateIs a pit-fall outside of yourself,Around which you may walk by the use of foresightAnd wisdom.
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I don't even bother trying to picture a perfect world, because I don't think that perfection is something to strive for. I prefer imperfection. That's what makes things special. You know, things that change.
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Most of us form estimates of our intelligence, wisdom, and moral fiber that are considerably higher than an objective estimate would warrant; no doubt 90 percent of us think ourselves well above average along these lines.
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In one-act pieces there should be only rubbish-that is their strength.
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If they come for me in the morning, they will come for you in the night.
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Wisdom is not a question of learning facts with the mind; it can only be acquired through perfection of living.
