We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already. – Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Any successful nominee should possess both the temperament to interpret the law and the wisdom to do so fairly. The next Supreme Court Justice should have a record of protecting individual rights and a strong willingness to put aside any political agenda. – Bennie Thompson
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
There have been times when I felt suicidal and I would stop my head from going in that direction of negativity because I thought thered be something Id miss that was funny in the future. If theres a chance Im going to laugh tomorrow then want to live to experience that. – Dave Navarro
In the months leading up to World War II, there was a tendency among many Americans to talk absently about the trouble in Europe. Nothing that happened an ocean away seemed very threatening. – Gene Tierney
Battles, in these ages, are transacted by mechanism; with the slightest possible development of human individuality or spontaneity; men now even die, and kill one another, in an artificial manner. – Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution, vol 1, book VII, chapter 4
