Louise Erdrich Quotes
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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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I don't plan on being bashful.
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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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If your writing collides with the conventional wisdom, there's going to be some kind of friction.
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In my view, the adults are the burnt generation of Iraq for whom nothing can be done. But for the children, we can worry now, we can talk about them, we can plan for them, we can get our protest heard by others.
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Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.
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Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.
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The batsman does not always need to create big hits. He can hit a boundary, then pick up some singles and still gets nine runs. To avoid that, I need to plan in a way where he must look to hit wherever there is a fielder. That is what is called 'bowling to the field.'
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A comprehensive marketing plan involves both online and offline efforts to use and broaden your existing platform to promote your book.
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When you're struggling to get a feature film off the ground, there's no big overarching tenure plan or anything like that.
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The All-Wise Maker attaches hundreds of instances of wisdom to each of the beings in the palace of the universe and equips them to perform hundreds of duties. To all trees He bestows instances of wisdom to the number of its fruits and gives duties to the number of its flowers.
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Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
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O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!
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If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.
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No party has a monopoly on wisdom. No democracy works without compromise. But when Governor Romney and his allies in Congress tell us we can somehow lower our deficit by spending trillions more on new tax breaks for the wealthy - well, you do the math. I refuse to go along with that. And as long as I'm President, I never will.
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We can't really digest food unless there's hunger. So we can't really assimilate spiritual wisdom unless we feel the need for it.
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We used to have to arrange things around the dialysis. I would have to plan where to play so I could be back in time, and couldn't go too far.
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Kabbalah is all about change. It isn't about being proud of our good qualities: the wisdom is about transforming our darkness into light.
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And hast thou sworn on every slight pretence, Till perjuries are common as bad pence, While thousands, careless of the damning sin, Kiss the book's outside, who ne'er look'd within?
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I have no style. There are certain people who just have a visual sense that defines their work. You could probably watch 30 seconds of anything they do and you'll know exactly who directed it. I don't have that skill.
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You find in life that there are different levels of being in love with someone, and maybe everyone doesn't find that undeniable, indescribable... I can't describe it, it's indescribable.
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Native plants give us a sense of where we are in this great land of ours. I want Texas to look like Texas and Vermont to look like Vermont.
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The prayer most pleasing to God is that made for others and particularly for the poor souls. Pray for them, if you want your prayers to bring high interest.
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The greatest wisdom doesn't know itself. The richest plan is not to have one.
