"Advice is seldom welcome. Those who need it most, like it least."
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"But here's some advice, boy. Don't put your trust in revolutions. They always come around again. That's why they're called revolutions."
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"Some people are immune to good advice."
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"If you will take my advice you will think little of Socrates, and a great deal more of truth."
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"He shook my hand and said goodbye with a sentence that might have been either good advice or a threat: "Take good care of yourself."
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"A journalist is a grumbler, a censurer, a giver of advice, a regent of sovereigns, a tutor of nations. Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets."
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"Often when someone comes to you and wants to vent, it's so tempting to start giving advice. But if you allow the person just to let the feelings out, and then at another time come back with advice or comments, that person would experience a deeper healing."
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"Never take advice from someone wearing a tie."
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"When we want to do something while unconsciously certain to fail, we seek advice so we can blame someone else for the failure."
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"Accept good advice gracefully - as long as it doesn't interfere with what you intended to do in the first place."
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"Even the ablest pilots are willing to receive advice from passengers in tempestuous weather."
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"My advice: Just keep movin' straight ahead. Every now and then you find yourself in a different place."
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"If stock market experts were so expert, they would be buying stock, not selling advice."
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"It is often wise to reveal that which cannot be concealed for long."
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"It is easy to give advice from a port of safety."
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"A private should preserve a respectful attitude toward his superiors, and should seldom or never proceed so far as to offer suggestions to his general in the field. If the battle is not being conducted to suit him, it is better for him to resign. By the etiquette of war, it is permitted to none below the rank of newspaper correspondent to dictate to the general in the field."
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"And if I may be so bold to offer my last piece of advice for someone seeking and needing to make changes in their life. If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree. You have the ability to totally transform every area in your life-and it all begins with your very own power of choice."
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"So here's my advice: Study broadly and without fear. Learn a language if you can, because that will make your life more interesting. Read a little bit every day. But more importantly, surround yourself with people who you like and make cool stuff with them. In the end, what you do isn't going to be nearly as interesting or important as who you do it with."
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"All advice can only be a product of the man who gives it."
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"If Christianity is only one more bit of good advice, then Christianity is of no importance."
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