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Wisdom is intelligence polished by experience.

- TheIndenturedSavant

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One of the greatest strengths a person can have is an accurate acessment of their weaknesses.

- TheIndenturedSavant

[theindenturedsavant]

What do you get when you combine a rabbit and a Pit Bull?

A hearing with the ethics committee and an immediate suspension of funding.

[theindenturedsavant]

…life must be understood backwards. But…it must be lived forwards.

- Sören Kierkegaard

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Well begun is half done.

- Ancient Greek Proverb

[theindenturedsavant]

You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

- Ray Bradbury

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Between a rock and a hard place there is room enough for something tenacious to grow.

- TheIndenturedSavant

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The things we remember best are those better forgotten.

- Baltasar Gracián

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The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange.

- G. K. Chesterton

[theindenturedsavant]

As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.

- Josh Billings

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The world is a comedy to those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.

- Horace Walpole

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Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.

- Aldous Huxley

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Silence is the best answer to the stupid.

- Egyptian proverb

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The palest ink is superior to the best memory.

- Chinese Proverb

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Simple pleasures…are the last refuge of the complex.

- Oscar Wilde

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A gentle breeze blowing in the right direction is better than a pair of strong oars.

- Canary Island proverb

[theindenturedsavant]

Life is too short to listen to what other people think life is too short for.

- TheIndenturedSavant