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The highest point of philosophy is to be both wise and simple; this is the angelic life. ↗

— John Chrysostom

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When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise. ↗

— Winston Churchill

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You have to really be courageous about your instincts and your ideas. Otherwise you'll just knuckle under, and things that might have been memorable will be lost. ↗

— Francis Ford Coppola

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No matter how much Bill Gates may claim otherwise, he missed the Internet, like a barreling freight train that he didn't hear or see coming. ↗

— Jim Clark

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Everything you listen to when you are 17 should be embarrassing, otherwise you are way too cool. ↗

— Jessica Brown Findlay

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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth. ↗

— Ludwig Borne

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We were young, we were merry, we were very, very wise, And the door stood open at our feast, When there passed us a woman with the West in her eyes, And a man with his back to the East. ↗

— Mary Elizabeth Coleridge

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There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

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But I do think it's unwise, and it - to build a mosque at the site where 3,000 Americans lost their lives as a result of a terrorist attack. And I think to me it demonstrates that the - that Washington, the White House, the administration, the President himself seems to be disconnected from the mainstream of America. ↗

— John Cornyn

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A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell! ↗

— Thomas Fuller

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