Famous Quotes: Wise

The government's view is that the best time to announce bad news, news that it doesn't want the public to dwell on is late on a Friday, when it will wind up in the Saturday papers, which if you were readers, then the week day editions. A holiday weekend is even better.
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It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods.
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Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
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Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?
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The wise musicians are those who play what they can master.
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As soon as men know that they can kill without fear of punishment or blame, they kill; or at least they encourage killers with approving smiles.
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The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.
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So even though I consider myself a fairly upbeat person, energetic and things like that, I never do very well on happiness tests.
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No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time.
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A wise traveler never despises his own country.
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I believe that President Clinton considered the legal merits of the arguments for the pardon as he understood them, and he rendered his judgment, wise or unwise, on the merits.
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A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice.
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To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there's more reason to fear than to hope.
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No man was ever wise by chance.
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I think being a wealthy member of the establishment is the antithesis of cool. Being a countercultural revolutionary is cool. So to the extent that you've made a billion dollars, you've probably become uncool.
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The wisest use of American strength is to advance freedom.
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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.
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Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn't always have to be their top priority.
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Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers.
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Every one of our greatest national treasures, our liberty, enterprise, vitality, wealth, military power, global authority, flow from a surprising source: our ability to give thanks.
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