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Quote by John Cheever
Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength

Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two. – John Cheever

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For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain and the noise of battle. It has the power to give grief or universality that lends it a youthful beauty. – John Cheever

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All literary men are Red Sox fans – to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life. – John Cheever

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Homesickness is nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time. – John Cheever

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If youre a singer you lose your voice. A baseball player loses his arm. A writer gets more knowledge, and if hes good, the older he gets, the better he writes. – Mickey Spillane

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Later, I realized that the mission had to end in a let-down because the real barrier wasnt in the sky but in our knowledge and experience of supersonic flight. – Chuck Yeager

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The knowledge of anything, since all things have causes, is not acquired or complete unless it is known by its causes. – Avicenna

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I do think we know that a teacher who knows what he or she is doing, knows their subject matter, and knows how to impart knowledge to kids is a critical piece of closing the achievement gap. – Margaret Spellings

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My ambition in high school was to be a high school coach and teacher, and thats still what I do: teach. – Mike Krzyzewski

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To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine. – Max Beerbohm

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