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Quote by Erica Jong
No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas,

No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks. – Erica Jong

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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness. – Erica Jong

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I have accepted fear as a part of life — specifically the fear of change…. I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back. – Erica Jong

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But the Wisdom of God, which is His only-begotten Son, being in all respects incapable of change or alteration, and every good quality in Him being essential, and such as cannot be changed and converted, His glory is therefore declared to be pure and sincere. – Origen

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I always prayed that God would give me the wisdom and the vision to do the things on this earth that I was supposed to do to express His life and love and His will. – Billy Ray Cyrus

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I think in conventional magazine wisdom, you need to have a redesign every decade or so. – Timothy White

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It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own. – William Ralph Inge

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