"Knowledge is understanding based on what has been studied and learned. Wisdom is understanding based on what has been felt and experienced."
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"I have been criticized and ridiculed for turning to astrology, but after a while, I reached the point where I didn't care."
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"Education is what is left after all that has been learnt is forgotten."
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"There's times when you catch a ball and really didn't even see that ball. You're like, 'That couldn't have been all me.'"
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"I cannot go on.... All that I have written seems to me like so much straw compared to what I have seen and what has been revealed to me."
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"A great deal more is known than has been proved."
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"But, if there ever was a time in history when "peace" meant that there was no fighting going on, I have been unable to find out about it."
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"We who have been ahead in STYLE have usually been also ahead in our thinking."
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"A fair trial would have been no trial at all."
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"Not a wasted word. This has been a main point to my literary thinking all my life."
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"How can we expect another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves?"
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"When you a 'has-been', just think of where you HAS-BEEN."
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"If I could have done anything more, it would have been less"
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"I was lucky to have been born with cheekbones."
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"There is nobody more dangerous than one who has been humiliated, even when you humiliate him rightly."
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"Most spiritual experiences begin with suffering. They begin with groundlessness. They begin when the rug has been pulled out from under us."
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"Talent comes from God. If you have been given some, then value it, cultivate it, work and develop it."
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"Maybe everything we've ever done has been for love."
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"If we are ever to become what we might have been, we must cease being who we've become."
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"Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say."
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