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Quote by John Updike
Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed

Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency. – John Updike

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Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner. – John Updike

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It rots a writers brain, it cretinises you. You say the same thing again and again, and when you do that happily youre well on the way to being a cretin. Or a politician. – John Updike

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A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world. – John Updike

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A nations treasure is its scholars. – Yiddish Proverb

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Focus on the mind and the soul. Read. Study. Enrol in a course of lectures. Pray. Become a member of a religious congregation. Study the Bible or other ancient works of wisdom. – Jonathan Sacks

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Knowledge is learning something every day. Wisdom is letting go of something every day. – Zen Proverb

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And when the world is created, it is created in such a way that those eternal objects of Gods loving wisdom become actualities – interacting with one another, relating to God in the finite realm. – Rowan D. Williams

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There is no such thing as darkness only a failure to see. – Malcolm Muggeridge

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Public and private food in America has become eatable, here and there extremely good. Only the fried potatoes go unchanged, as deadly as before. – Luigi Barzini

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Its simple, if it jiggles, its fat. – Arnold Schwarzenegger

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There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you its going to be a butterfly. – R. Buckminster Fuller

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