wisdom Quotes
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Why the Egyptian, Arabic, Abyssinian, Choctaw? Well, what tongue does the wind talk? What nationality is a storm? What country do rains come from? What color is lightning? Where does thunder go when it dies?
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America is a fortunate country. She grows by the follies of our European nations.
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Life after 50 or 60 is itself another country, as different as adolescence is from childhood, or as adulthood is from adolescence – and just as adventurous.
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We establish no religion in this country. We command no worship. We mandate no belief, nor will we ever. Church and state are and must remain separate.
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Miracles happen every day. Not just in remote country villages or at holy sites halfway across the globe, but here, in our own lives.
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Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.
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I think that there is far too much work done in the world, that immense harm is caused by the belief that work is virtuous, and that what needs to be preached in modern industrial countries is quite different from what always has been preached.
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How dismal it is to see present day Americans yearning for the very orthodoxy that their country was founded to escape.
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In various countries and times, leaders of groups that lagged behind, economically and educationally, have taught their followers to blame all their problems on other people – and to hate those other people.
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Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window.