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Wisdom 91
Thomas More: Why not be a teacher?
You'd be a fine teacher. Perhaps, a great one.
Richard Rich: And if I was who would know it?
Thomas More: You, your pupils, your friends, God.
Not a bad public, that.
Robert Bolt
Source: A Man For All Seasons
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Wisdom 92
Thomas More: And go he should if he was the Devil himself until he broke the law!
Will Roper: So now you'd give the Devil benefit of law!
More: Yes. What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil?
Roper: I'd cut down every law in England to do that!
More: Oh? And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned round on you—where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? This country's planted thick with laws from coast to coast—Man's laws, not God's—and if you cut them down—and you're just the man to do it—d'you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes, I'd give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake.
Robert Bolt
Source: A Man For All Seasons
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Wisdom 93
Is a danger to be trusting one another,
One will seldom want to do what other wishes;
But unless someday somebody trust somebody
There'll be nothing left on earth excepting fishes!
Oscar Hammerstein II
Source: A Puzzlement, from The King and I
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Wisdom 94
I went to the woods because I wished to live
deliberately, to front only the essential
facts of life, and see if I could not learn
what it had to teach, and not, when I came
to die, discover that I had not lived.
Henry David Thoreau
Source: Walden
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Wisdom 95
Man's painful desire to communicate without coalescing.
Clifton Fadiman
Comment: This is in my 1950's card file; if you know the source, please let me know.
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Wisdom 96
Overcoming poverty is not an act of charity—
it is an act of justice.
Nelson Mandela
Source: Speaking at the Make Poverty History rally in Trafalgar Square in London on 3 February 2005
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Wisdom 97
Every journey has a secret destination
of which the traveler is unaware.
Martin Buber
Source: Quoted by Dan Millman in The Journeys of Socrates
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Wisdom 98
Mental health is based on a certain degree of tension,
the tension between what one has already achieved
and what one still ought to accomplish, or the gap
between what one is and what one should become.
Viktor Frankl
Source: Man's Search For Meaning
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Wisdom 99
I learned this, at least, by my experiment;
that if one advances confidently in the
direction of his dreams, and endeavors to
live the life which he has imagined, he will meet
with a success unexpected in common hours.
Henry David Thoreau
Source: Walden
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Wisdom 100
If you have built castles in the air,
your work need not be lost;
that is where they should be.
Now put the foundations under them.
Henry David Thoreau
Source: Walden
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