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I believe that all wisdom consists in caring immensely for a few r

I believe that all wisdom consists in caring immensely for a few right things, and not caring a straw about the rest. – John Buchan

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The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there. – John Buchan

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Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences. – John Buchan

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Now our founding fathers had the wisdom to know that social acceptance and popularity were fleeing, and that this countrys principles needed to be rooted in strengths greater than the passions and the emotions of the times. – Chris Christie

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Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it. – Aristotle

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The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practiced, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. – Pierre Charron

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It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law. – Thomas Hobbes

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