Wisdom

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A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.

Ralph Waldo Emerson




The task ahead of us is never as great as the power behind us.




The unwilling, led by the incompetent, to do the unnecessary, for the ungrateful.

Seen often in Vietnam




The world changes, love changes and best friends become strangers

Yas




The more I know about people, the more I wish I didn't know.




It is not what you do to live, but what you live to do.




If we wish to create a lasting peace we must begin with the children.

Mohandas K. Gandhi




If you don't take a chance you don't have a chance.




Our doubts are traitors,
And make us lose the good we oft might win
By fearing to attempt.

William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure




It is better to suffer the consequences of the truth, than the consequences of a lie.




Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept the views which Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon, have given; forgetful that Cicero, Locke, and Bacon were young men in libraries when they wrote those books.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, The American Scholar




Critize a friend in private, praise him in public.

Leonardo da Vinci




We lead our lives like water flowing down a hill, going more or less in one direction until we splash into something that forces us to find a new course.

Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha




Enjoy the small moments in life, and life will have more color.




Well behaved women rarely make history

Laural Thatcher Ulrich




The study of history is realizing that the source of every current existence lies in the past.

Brea Ettel




Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about the things that matter.

Martin Luther King




To be nobody but yourself, in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else, means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

E.E. Cummings




I never learned anything from anybody who agreed with me.




Take a mental walk through the cancer wards, the children hospitals, the insane asylums, and the homeless ghettos, and then re-ask yourself what is bothering you.




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