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If one were to bring ten of the wisest men in the world together and ask them what was the most stupid thing in existence, they would not be able to discover anything so stupid as astrology.


David Hilbert


#anything #ask #astrology #bring #discover

God saw fit, for wise reasons to allow the people of Israel thus to make and possess slaves; but is this any license to us to enslave any of our fellow-men, to kill any of our fellow-men whom we please and are able to destroy, and take possession of their estates?


Samuel Hopkins


#allow #any #destroy #enslave #estates

Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.


James Thurber


#know #less #men #more #than

The conqueror is regarded with awe; the wise man commands our respect; but it is only the benevolent man that wins our affection.


William Dean Howells


#awe #benevolent #commands #conqueror #man

We may simply not be wise enough to do some of the kinds of engineering things that people are talking about doing.


Leon Kass


#doing #engineering #enough #kinds #may

It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.


Fannie Hurst


#clever man #cynic #enough #man #takes

A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circlue of our felicities.


Thomas Jefferson


#another #bread #close #earned #free

The world is filled with violence. Because criminals carry guns, we decent law-abiding citizens should also have guns. Otherwise they will win and the decent people will loose.


James Earl Jones


#because #carry #citizens #criminals #decent

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations.


William Feather


#experience #fables #folk #into #nation

It's not that there are no masters, but that there are many. And the job of the solicitor general is to balance those masters and to accommodate them all, each in their proper places, wisely and well and in so doing to represent the people of the United States.


Elena Kagan


#balance #doing #each #general #job






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