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Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and ma

Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh. – Lord Chesterfield

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Regularity in the hours of rising and retiring, perseverance in exercise, adaptation of dress to the variations of climate, simple and nutritious aliment, and temperance in all things are necessary branches of the regimen of health. – Lord Chesterfield

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fitness
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Lord Chesterfield
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Politeness is as much concerned in answering letters within a reasonable time, as it is in returning a bow, immediately. – Lord Chesterfield

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Letters
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Lord Chesterfield
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You can do one of two things. You can bury you head in the sand and believe what everyone tells you – that you will always be that young, that thin and that fabulous. Or you can use all the things you have – talent, contacts, knowledge – and do something different. – Cat Deeley

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Knowledge

For knowledge itself is power. – Francis Bacon

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Knowledge

The ordinary American – as far as I can tell – knows so much less than he did fifty years ago and has such poor work habits compared with fifty years ago that the average multiplicand of knowledge/capabilities is a much smaller number than it was in 1961. – Ben Stein

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Knowledge

There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there. – Albert Einstein

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I have no fear of losing my life – if I have to save a koala or a crocodile or a kangaroo or a snake, mate, I will save it. – Steve Irwin

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Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them. – Immanuel Kant

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The higher the voice the smaller the intellect. – Ernest Newman

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The Final Jeopardy! questions seem to be, by design, things you cant know. And so its not about who knows them, but who can figure them out in thirty seconds. – Ken Jennings

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