"No man ever became wise by chance."
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"The wise man lacked nothing but needed a great number of things, whereas the fool, on the other hand, needs nothing (for he does not know how to use anything) but lacks everything."
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"Since all of us desire to be happy, and since we evidently become so on account of our use—that is our good use—of other things, and since knowledge is what provides this goodness of use and also good fortune, every man must, as seems plausible, prepare himself by every means for this: to be as wise as possible. Right?"
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"I'm a business first and foremost so whatever my business is, it's separate from my personal. It's like whatever I do business wise, it's done in the business fashion whether it's promoting , marketing, whatever I'm doing."
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"I alone know I am wise because I alone know I know nothing."
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"How terrible is wisdom, when it brings no profit to the man that's wise"
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"A wise player ought to accept his throws and score them, not bewail his luck."
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"There is no happiness where there is no wisdom; No wisdom but in submission to the gods. Big words are always punished, And proud men in old age learn to be wise."
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"stop now before i kill you a word to the wise from your friend PENNYWISE"
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"If I determine the enemy's disposition of forces while I have no perceptible form, I can concentrate my forces while the enemy is fragmented. The pinnacle of military deployment approaches the formless: if it is formless, then even the deepest spy cannot discern it nor the wise make plans against it."
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"The secret of the receptive Must be sought in stillness; Within stillness there remains The potential for action."
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"Shouldn't you have a license for being that ugly?"
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"The most effective comeback to an insult is silence."
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"Hi there, I'm a human being! What are you?"
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"Very high, very grand, and very wise is the ocean of God, the Water of Life. You went after the form and were lead astray. How can you see it? You abandoned the truth. Sometimes it is named "tree," sometimes "sun," sometimes "ocean," sometimes "cloud," one thing from which scores of discoveries arise, its slightest definition an everlasting life."
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"Wisdom includes not getting angry unnecessarily. The Law ignores trifles and the wise man does, too."
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"I don't think there's any harm at all in allowing a kid to fantasize. In fact, I think to stop people from fantasizing is a very destructive thing indeed."
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"Whatever money you might have, self-worth really lies in finding out what you do best."
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"wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good."
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"I needed to put something together that would continually get me up at 4:30 in the morning, get me to work and get me excited to throw on those costumes - which clearly continue to excite me, if you are a viewer of the show - and circumstances that continue to surprise me and ask me to go places acting-wise that I haven't explored before."
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