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The wisest have the most authority.


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Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.


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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.


Geoffrey Chaucer
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'Maybe.' There's our word. The wisest answer to ultimate questions.


Robert Fulghum
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I never liked quantitative easing. It's misunderstood by almost everybody. Flattening the yield curve is not stimulative; flattening the yield curve is anti-stimulative.
Kenneth Fisher
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Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.


William Shakespeare
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I think that that's the wisest thing - to prevent illness before we try to cure something.


Maya Angelou
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
Thomas Jefferson
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Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.
Pindar
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Genius worship is the inevitable sign of an uncreative age.


Clive Bell
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The inevitable has always found me ready and hopeful.


Amelia Barr
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Fatalism is the lazy man's way of accepting the inevitable.


Natalie Clifford Barney
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It is the unbroken testimony of all history that alcoholic liquors have been used by the strongest, wisest, handsomest, and in every way best races of all times.
George Saintsbury
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There is no doubt that Stop-and-Frisk does not yield the desired results, and it is apparent that it disproportionately targets minority communities.
Yvette Clarke
Even the weakest disputant is made so conceited by what he calls religion, as to think himself wiser than the wisest who think differently from him.
Walter Savage Landor
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Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.


John F. Kennedy
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I think an interview, properly considered, should be an investigation. You shouldn't know what the interview will yield. Otherwise, why do it at all?
Errol Morris
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Making the solution seem so completely inevitable and obvious, so uncontrived and natural - it's so hard!
Jonathan Ive
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I believe a united Ireland is inevitable. I have never put a date on it.


Martin McGuinness
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Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.


Coco Chanel
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