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There's a divinity that shapes our ends,Rough-hew them how we will.
William Shakespeare
They say that patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings steal a little and they throw you in jail. Steal a lot and then they make you king.
Bob Dylan
Science can make man comfortable, but only wisdom can make man happy.
Theodore Hesburgh
Beauty, the eternal Spouse of the Wisdom of God and Angel of his Presence thru' all creation.
Robert Bridges
The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.
Paulo Coelho
Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it: by confucius NOT andy warhol
Confucius
Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.
Henry David Thoreau
Mystery is the wisdom of blockheads
Horace Walpole
TO BE is life's dilemma while facing the eternity of death.
Sorin Cerin
Leadership means that a group, large or small, is willing to entrust authority to a person who has shown judgement, wisdom, personal appeal, and proven competence.
Walt Disney
The Great Way is not difficult for those who have no preferences. When love and hate are both absent everything becomes clear and undisguised. Make the smallest distinction, however, and heaven and earth are set infinitely apart. If you wish to see the truth then hold no opinion for or against. The struggle of what one likes and what one dislikes is the disease of the mind.
Sengcan
I want you to know that also I will not make age an issue of this campaign. I am not going to exploit, for political purposes, my opponent's youth and inexperience. [Laughter and applause] If I still have time, I might add that it was Seneca or it was Cicero, I don't know which, that said, If it was not for the elders correcting the mistakes of the young, there would be no state.''
Ronald Reagan
The apparent multiplication of gods is bewildering at the first glance, but you soon discover that they are the same GOD. There is always one uttermost God who defies personification. This makes Hinduism the most tolerant religion in the world, because its one transcendent God includes all possible gods. In fact Hinduism is so elastic and so subtle that the most profound Methodist, and crudest idolater, are equally at home with it.
George Bernard Shaw
. . . I had found the edge. The place where you unstrap all your fastenings to the earth, to what you are what you have been, where you flame out on the edge of the spheres, and the sun and moon become eclipsed and the world below is as dead and remote and without interest as if it were glazed with ice.
James Lee Burke
We too. No wisdom to utter. You've beauty, flux, and terror To tell. So've I. And they're Very hard to mutter Through so much chatter and stutter.
Philip José Farmer
Respect life, Revere life. There is nothing more holy than life, nothing more divine than life.
Osho
At noise, if you want to listen to any meaning of it; Just open your mind, and your heart will find something... it always find something.
Suka
The wise are doubtful.
Plato
A wise man fights to win, but he is twice a fool who has no plan for possible defeat.
Louis L'Amour
Take these things to heart, my son, I warn you.All men make mistakes, it is only human.But once the wrong is done, a mancan turn his back on folly, misfortune too,if he tries to make amends, however low he's fallen,and stops his bullnecked ways. Stubbornnessbrands you for stupidity - pride is a crime.
Sophocles