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"Babies are thinking and attracting before they are speaking. Even though you are only months old in your physical body, you are a very old and wise Creator, focused in that baby's body."
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"He who can properly summarize many ideas in a brief statement, is a wise man."
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"Give a wise man an honest brief to plead and his eloquence is no remarkable achievement."
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"The wise with hope support the pains of life."
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"None wise dares hopeless venture."
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"If all men saw the fair and wise the same men would not have debaters' double strife."
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"Had I succeeded well, I had been reckoned amongst the wise; our minds are so disposed to judge from the event."
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"When a wise man chooses a sane basis for his arguments, it is no great task to speak well."
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"They say that there are three kinds of people in the world. There are people who never learn one way or another anything; there are people who learn from their own mistakes, eventually and with great pain; and then there are the really wise people who learn from other people's mistakes and spare themselves the suffering."
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"Wise men still seek Him today."
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"Only a fool is interested in other people's guilt, since he cannot alter it. The wise man learns only from his own guilt. He will ask himself: Who am I that all this should happen to me? To find the answer to this fateful question he will look into his own heart."
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"The facts of nature cannot in the long run be violated. Penetrating and seeping through everything like water, they will undermine any system that fails to take account of them, and sooner or later they will bring about its downfall. But an authority wise enough in its statesmanship to give sufficient free play to nature - of which spirit is a part - need fear no premature decline."
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"Thank God, men that art greatly guilty are never wise."
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"There's only one proper way a song should go, but you've got to be patient enough to let them come together time wise. Sometimes it's lightning in a bottle and you got the song. But oftentimes it shows up."
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"RHETORIC The art of making life less believable; the calculated use of language, not to alarm but to do full harm to our busy minds and properly dispose our listeners to a pain they have never dreamed of. The context of what can be known establishes that love and indifference are forms of language, but the wise addition of punctuation allows us to believe that there are other harms - the dash gives the reader the clear signal they are coming."
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"Men may be born free; they cannot be born wise; and it is the duty of the university to make the free wise."
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"Who is omnipotent or wise enough to decide each new standard of good taste? Or sensitivity?"
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"It's a very wise thing for people to rationally sit down and look at what the risks are not only on a daily basis, on a weekly basis, on a monthly basis, on a yearly basis, on a lifetime basis, and then plan one's life accordingly."
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"Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise." He planned his routine around waking up at 5 a.m. and asking himself "What good shall I do this day?"
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