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Wisdom is learning what to overlook. - William James

Wisdom is learning what to overlook. – William James

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Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed. – William James

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great
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William James
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No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good ones sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, ones character may remain entirely unaffected for the better. – William James

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You have to grow thick skin and that only comes with time and learning. – Karlie Kloss

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Im just learning who I am and how relationships work and how to make them function. No different from anyone else. – Drew Barrymore

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That image of the countryside being a threatening place still exists. People continue to resist the challenge of learning about aspects of life they dont understand. – Mary Wesley

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Learning is a lifetime process, but there comes a time when we must stop adding and start updating. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Its shocking how little there is to do with tennis when youre just thinking about nothing except winning every point. – Andre Agassi

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We ought to recognize that we have an offensive responsibility to take the war to the terrorists where they are. That responsibility has waned in the last year as military and intelligence resources were withdrawn from Afghanistan and Pakistan to be used in Iraq. – Bob Graham

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Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things. – Robert Louis Stevenson, Virginibus puerisque, 1881

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One of the things thats great about New York is that it is not a one-industry town. It has education, academia, the service industry, arts, publishing, theater, politics, fashion, finance, as well as movie-making. – Sarah Jessica Parker

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