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The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything

The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything. – Milan Kundera

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The serial number of a human specimen is the face, that accidental and unrepeatable combination of features. It reflects neither character nor soul, nor what we call the self. The face is only the serial number of a specimen. – Milan Kundera

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Face, Faces
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Milan Kundera
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There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even ones own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels for someone, for someone, pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echos. – Milan Kundera

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Imagination
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Milan Kundera
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True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power. – Milan Kundera

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

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Wisdom

If youre trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. Ive had them everybody has had them. But obstacles dont have to stop you. If you run into a wall, dont turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it. – Michael Jordan

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Wisdom

Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun. – Franz Grillparzer

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Wisdom

Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech. – Plutarch

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Social media is not about the exploitation of technology but service to community. – Simon Mainwaring

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If we cant face death, well never overcome it. You have to look it straight in the eye. Then you can turn around and walk back out into the light. – Maya Lin

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Wine is sure proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy. – Benjamin Franklin

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A hundred men together are the hundredth part of a man. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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People