David Bowie
Musician, Actor
"Religion is for people who fear hell, spirituality is for people who have been there."
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Rumi
Poet, Philosopher
"Always remember you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, smarter than you think and twice as beautiful as you'd ever imagined. Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself"
Oscar Wilde
Writer
"I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying."
Voltaire
Philosopher, Writer
"Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers."
Peter Drucker
Management Consultant, Author
"What gets measured gets managed."
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"I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity."
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"The white man is very clever. He came quietly and peaceably with his religion. We were amused at his foolishness and allowed him to stay. Now he has won our brothers, and our clan can no longer act like one. He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart."
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"Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom."
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"The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend."
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"People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election."
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"You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on."
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"If every 8 year old in the world is taught meditation, we will eliminate violence from the world within one generation"
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"Empathy is really important.. Only when our clever brain and our human heart work together in harmony can we achieve our full potential."
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"Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil."
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"Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut."
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"Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth."
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"Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must."
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"I never think of the future - it comes soon enough."
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"Treat every moment as a gift, that is why it is called the present."
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"Fear is the destructive energy in man. It withers the mind, it distorts thought, it leads to all kinds of extraordinarily clever and subtle theories, absurd superstitions, dogmas, and beliefs."
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"Today is a gift from God - that is why it is called the present."
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"There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad."
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"Take from a man his reputation for probity, and the more shrewd and clever he is, the more hated and mistrusted he becomes."
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"One man's theology is another man's belly laugh."
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"A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave."
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