Don't wait for miracles, your whole life is a miracle.

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Knowledge is realizing that the street is one way; wisdom is looking in both directions anyway.

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The only sure way to avoid making mistakes is to have no new ideas.

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Those who manage their way into a crisis are not necessarily the right people to manage their way out of a crisis

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A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.

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Nothing causes more consternation in a group of hypocrits than one honest man.

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The individual who has experienced solitude will not easily become a victim of mass suggestion.

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Failure is success in progress

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Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invariably they are both disappointed.

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A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

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