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«We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely.»
Author: Edward O. Wilson
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critically, drowning, henceforth, put together, run by, starving, synthesizer, The Right Time, wisely
«Yesterday is a canceled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have - so spend it wisely»
Author: Kay Lyons
| About:
Time
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«Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
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Prudence
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fast, slow, stumble, wisely
«We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.»
«We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.»
Author: Adlai E. Stevenson
(Ambassador, Governor, Politician)
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chart, charted, charting, clearly, LED, The Path, wisely
«Who reasons wisely is not therefore wise; His pride in reasoning, not in acting, lies»
«We take care of our health, we lay up money, we make our roof tight and our clothing sufficient, but who provides wisely that he shall not be wanting the best property of all -- friends?»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
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«We were wise indeed, could we discern truly the signs of our own time; and by knowledge of its wants and advantages, wisely adjust our own position in it. Let us, instead of gazing idly into the obscure distance, look calmly around us, for a little, on the perplexed scene where we stand. Perhaps, on a more serious inspection, something of its perplexity will disappear, some of its distinctive characters and deeper tendencies more clearly reveal themselves; whereby our own relations to it, our own true aims and endeavors in it, may also become clearer.»
Author: Thomas Carlyle
(Essayist, Historian)
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«We live by admiration, hope and love; and even as these are well and wisely fixed, in dignity of being we ascend»
Author: William Wordsworth
(Poet)
| About:
Living
| Keywords:
admiration, ascend, ascends, even as, fixed, wisely
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