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Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow i

Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow immortal as they quote. – Edward Young

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The weak have remedies, the wise have joys superior wisdom is superior bliss. – Edward Young

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Wisdom
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Edward Young
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There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired. – Edward Young

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Poetry
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A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer. – Bruce Lee

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What society doesnt realize is that in the past, ordinary people respected learning. They respected books, and they dont now, or not very much. That whole respect for serious literature and learning has disappeared. – Doris Lessing

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Id love to be a saxophonist. I dont know why, but I pretend Im the saxophonist when I listen to music. I have about as much chance playing the sax as I do learning how to fly. – Richard Price

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If you use your mind to study reality, you wont understand either your mind or reality. If you study reality without using your mind, youll understand both. – Bodhidharma

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A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of ones life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted. – George Santayana

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When nature exceeds culture, we have the rustic. When culture exceeds nature then we the pedant. – Confucius

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If one seeks to analyze experiences and reactions to the first postwar years, I hope one may say without being accused of bias that it is easier for the victor than for the vanquished to advocate peace. – Gustav Stresemann

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When you have that window of opportunity called a crisis, move as quickly as you can, get as much done as you can. Theres a momentum for change thats very compelling. – Anne M. Mulcahy

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