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Dalai Lama Spiritual Leader
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"Is this what you have in mind,' I asked the Dalai Lama, 'when you say in teachings that the buddhas and bodhisattvas of the world are the most selfish beings of all, that by cultivating altruism they actually achieve ultimate happiness for themselves?' Yes. That's wise selfish,' he replied. 'Helping others not means we do this at our own expense. Not like this. Buddhas and bodhisattvas, these people very wise. All their lives they only want one thing: to achieve ultimate happiness. How to do this? By cultivating compassion, by cultivating altruism."

Wise Teaching Selfish
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Paulo Coelho Writer
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"One day you will wake up and there won’t be any more time to do the things you’ve always wanted. Do it now. The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them."

Simple Wise One Day
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Plato Philosopher
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"So the state founded on natural principles is wise as a whole in virtue of the knowledge inherent in its smallest constituent class, which exercises authority over the rest. And the smallest class is the one which naturally possesses that form of knowledge which alone of all others deserves the title of wisdom."

Wise Class Exercise
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Abraham Lincoln Political Leader
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"He will have to learn, I know, that all people are not just- that all men and women are not true. Teach him that for every scoundrel there is a hero that for every enemy there is a friend. Let him learn early that the bullies are the easiest people to lick."

Wise Wisdom Hero
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Euripides Playwright
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"A wise man in his house should find a wife gentle and courteous, or no wife at all."

Men Wise Wife
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Daniel Kahneman Psychologist, Nobel Laureate
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"Lucky risk takers use hindsight to reinforce their feeling that their gut is very wise. Hindsight also reinforces others' trust in that individual's gut."

Feelings Wise Risk
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Adam Smith Philosopher, Economist
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"The man of system is apt to be very wise in his own conceit. In the great chess board of human society, every single piece has a principle of motion of its own altogether different from that which the legislature might choose to impress upon it"

Men Wise Might
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Democritus Philosopher
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"The whole Earth is at the hand of the wise man, since the fatherland of an elevated soul is the Universe."

Men Hands Wise
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Confucius Philosopher
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"It is goodness that gives to a neighborhood its beauty. One who is free to choose, yet does not prefer to dwell among the good - how can he be accorded the name of wise?"

Names Wise Beauty
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Confucius Philosopher
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"He who is really good can never be unhappy. He who is really wise can never be perplexed. He who is really brave is never afraid."

Wise Unhappy Bravery
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Bob Dylan Singer-songwriter
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"Although the masters make the rules for the wise men and the fools, I've got nothing, Ma, to live up to."

Men Wise Fool
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Brigham Young Religious Leader
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"Some wise being organized my system, and gave me my capacity, put into my heart and brain something that delights, charms, and fills me with rapture at the sound of sweet music."

Wise Sweet Music
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