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What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? - Norman Dougl

What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? – Norman Douglas

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Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague. – Norman Douglas

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The Divine wisdom has given us prayer, not as a means whereby to obtain the good things of earth, but as a means whereby we learn to do without them not as a means whereby we escape evil, but as a means whereby we become strong to meet it. – Frederick William Robertson

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Economists often like startling theorems, results which seem to run counter to conventional wisdom. – Joseph Stiglitz

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Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as knowing what to do next. – Herbert Hoover

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The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy. – George Santayana

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An inability to stay quiet is one of the most conspicuous failings of mankind. – Walter Bagehot

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Unless we practice conservation, those who come after us will have to pay the price of misery, degradation, and failure for the progress and prosperity of our day. – Gifford Pinchot

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