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Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors. – James Madison

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A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps both. – James Madison

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If we are to take for the criterion of truth the majority of suffrages, they ought to be gotten from those philosophic and patriotic citizens who cultivate their reason. – James Madison

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Im not a money manager, but I can tell you what the conventional wisdom is. The younger you are, the more risk you can take on. – Maria Bartiromo

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No man was ever wise by chance. – Seneca

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Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment. – Lao Tzu

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To keep your secret is wisdom but to expect others to keep it is folly. – Samuel Johnson

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Sometimes the littlest inquiries produce the biggest results. – Terri Guillemets

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Attempt something so impossible that unless God is in it, its doomed to failure. – John Haggai

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We are all serving a life sentence, and good behavior is our only hope for a pardon. – Douglas Horton

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During the Cold War, we gathered information by listening to the Soviets, taking pictures of the Soviets, and we allowed our human intelligence to decline. – Bob Graham

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