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Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything. – Sydney Smith

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He has spent all his life in letting down empty buckets into empty wells; and he is frittering away his age in trying to draw them up again. – Sydney Smith

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Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence. – Sydney Smith

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Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex… It takes a touch of genius – and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. – E. F. Schumacher

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Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men. – Confucius

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One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars and the world will be better for this. – Miguel de Cervantes

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But we got up there and decided to stick to this mix of power chords and funk and thats where it really started for us. In having the courage to take that decision. To take a gamble not just with our music but our lives. – Michael Hutchence

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Anger is short-lived madness. – Horace

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My religion centers in different areas than whats considered conventional religion. – Jack Kevorkian

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The one thing I regret was that my work required an enormous amount of my time, and a lot of travel. – Neil Armstrong

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Leadership must be likeable, affable, cordial, and above all emotional. The fashion of authoritarian leadership is gone. Football is about life. You cant be angry all day. – Vicente del Bosque

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