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Much wisdom often goes with fewest words.


Sophocles
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Words of wisdom are spoken by children at least as often as scientists.


James Newman
Lord, give us the wisdom to utter words that are gentle and tender, for tomorrow we may have to eat them.
Mo Udall
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Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences of human values.
Sidney Hook
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Theology in general seems to me a substitution of human ingenuity for divine wisdom.


Julia Ward Howe
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The charge of being ambiguous and indefinite may be brought against every human composition, and necessarily arises from the imperfection of language. Perhaps no two men will express the same sentiment in the same manner and by the same words; neither do they connect precisely the same ideas with the same words.
Oliver Ellsworth
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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.


Octavio Paz
Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two. A constant coming and going: wisdom lies in the momentary.
Octavio Paz
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Writing, for me, is a very fluid process. I sit down and wait for the words to come. They usually do - in buckets and waves. I look upon it as a blessing because the words come so easily.
Sharon Draper
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The human body is strange and flawed and unpredictable. The human body has many secrets, and it does not divulge them to anyone, except those who have learned to wait.
Paul Auster
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All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.


Epictetus
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The conventional wisdom with David Mamet is, you do not change a word. And that agrees with me. If you want to change any of David's words, it's like wanting to change the iambic pentameter in Shakespeare - you should do something else.
John C. McGinley
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I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an echo sounded, no matter how faintly, I would send other words to tell, to march, to fight, to create a sense of hunger for life that gnaws in us all.
Richard Wright
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They're my favorite two words these days: Oscar reject.


Linda Fiorentino
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Technique is communication: the two words are synonymous in conductors.


Leonard Bernstein
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We could hardly wait to get up in the morning.


Wilbur Wright
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Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use.


Wendell Johnson
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The problem lies with us: we've become addicted to experts. We've become addicted to their certainty, their assuredness, their definitiveness, and in the process, we have ceded our responsibility, substituting our intellect and our intelligence for their supposed words of wisdom.
Noreena Hertz
I tried to use words that were dealing with the emotional quality that any human being could recognize in the way that they felt about their country. It's to do with the world we live in. That world is a brutal one and full of war. It's also full of many wonderful things and love and hope.
P. J. Harvey
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To be honest, I can't wait to be a dad. I really hope that that's how the cookie crumbles for me.


Lucas Neff
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