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A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

~Bruce Lee

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It is important for us to understand where we came from and how we got here because it would be very foolish of us to get off that horse we rode in on.

~Bruce Nordstrom

Topics: Because Came Foolish Get Got Here Horse How Important Off Rode Understand Us Very Where Would

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To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

~Buddha

Topics: Death Diligent Foolish Idle Life People Road Short Way Wise Wise People

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The foolish man conceives the idea of 'self.' The wise man sees there is no ground on which to build the idea of 'self;' thus, he has a right conception of the world and well concludes that all compounds amassed by sorrow will be dissolved again, but the truth will remain.

~Buddha

Topics: Again Build Compounds Conception Dissolved Foolish Ground He Idea Man Remain Right Sees Self Sorrow Thus Truth Well Which Will Wise Wise Man World

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People are foolish if they think I'm going to lose my head and give up anything to anyone just because someone threatens me.

~Cam'Ron

Topics: Anyone Anything Because Foolish Give Going Head Just Just Because Lose Me People Someone Think Threatens Up

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Of one thing I am certain: we are foolish if we think we will achieve change by sending the same crowd of people back to run our government again and again.

~Carlos Beruff

Topics: Achieve Again Am Back Certain Change Crowd Foolish Government One Thing Our People Run Same Sending Thing Think Will I Am

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The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to doctrinaire and academic thinkers.

~Carroll Quigley

Topics: Academic Acceptable Argument Foolish Idea Ideals Left Only Opposed Other Parties Perhaps Policies Represent Right Should Thinkers Two

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Sanctions and negotiations can be very ineffective, and indeed foolish, unless the people you are talking with and negotiating with and trying to reach agreements with are people who can be trusted to keep their word.

~Caspar Weinberger

Topics: Agreements Foolish Indeed Ineffective Keep Negotiating Negotiations People Reach Sanctions Talking Trusted Trying Unless Very Who Word You

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Many Americans abhor paternalism. They think that people should be able to go their own way, even if they end up in a ditch. When they run risks, even foolish ones, it isn't anybody's business that they do.

~Cass Sunstein

Topics: Abhor Able American Anybody Business Ditch End Even Foolish Go Many Own People Risks Run Should Think Up Way

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Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty has always found satisfaction.

~Charles Baudelaire

Topics: Always Appear Appetite Beauty Centuries Even Foolish Found Immortal Monstrous Most Satisfaction Us Which

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