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The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it. ↗

— Jean Paul

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Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. ↗

— Henry Ford

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Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom. ↗

— Anatole France

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Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom. ↗

— Clifford Stoll

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We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

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It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is laid to rest in repositories. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

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Winners never quit and quitters never win. ↗

— Vince Lombardi

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Your aim will be knowledge and wisdom, not the reflected glamour of fame. ↗

— Abbott L. Lowell

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The more I work with the body, keeping my assumptions in a temporary state of reservation, the more I appreciate and sympathize with a given disease. The body no longer appears as a sick or irrational demon, but as a process with its own inner logic and wisdom. ↗

— George MacDonald

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Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors. ↗

— James Madison

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