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The most important lesson of New Labour is this: Every time we made progress we did it by challenging the conventional wisdom. ↗

— Ed Miliband

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The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

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Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable. ↗

— John Patrick

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Within Siddhartha there slowly grew and ripened the knowledge of what wisdom really was and the goal of his long seeking. It was nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life. This thought matured in him slowly, and it was reflected in Vasudeva's old childlike face: harmony, knowledge of the eternal perfection of the world, and unity. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

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It does not take age to be a sage, neither does it require rage to have the courage to be a sage in this day and age. ↗

— Ogwo David Emenike

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Community organizing is all about building grassroots support. It's about identifying the people around you with whom you can create a common, passionate cause. And it's about ignoring the conventional wisdom of company politics and instead playing the game by very different rules. ↗

— Tom Peters

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Question everything, unless it's the answer ↗

— Benny Bellamacina

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In the dark , everything is scary ↗

— Sandra Chami Kassis

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You can't always be right, but you can be wrong a lot less ↗

— Benny Bellamacina

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Never respond to an angry person with a fiery comeback, even if he deserves it...Don't allow his anger to become your anger. ↗