Walt's World of Wisdom
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Wisdom 51
Ubuntu ungamntu ngabanye abantu.
People are people through other people.
Xhosa proverb
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Wisdom 52
We say in Africa, "A person is a person through other persons." We are made for togetherness. We are made for friendship. We are made for fellowship. We are different precisely to know our need of one another.
Desmond Tutu
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Wisdom 53
How many coaches does it take
to change a lightbulb?
Only one.
But the lightbulb really has to
want to change.
Unknown wise person
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Wisdom 54
There's wiser eating grass.
A Scottish shepherd's comment on gullible people
Source: via David Alexander
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Wisdom 55
Peace
Peace will
Peace will come
And let it begin with me
Tom Paxton
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Wisdom 56
Que bonito es no hacer nada,
y luego descansar.
How beautiful it is do nothing,
and then rest afterward.
Spanish proverb
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Wisdom 57
You've heard of people calling in sick. You may have called in sick a few times yourself. But have you ever thought of calling in well?
It'd go like this: You'd get the boss on the line and say, "Listen, I've been sick ever since I started working here, but today I'm well and I won't be in anymore."
Call in well.
Tom Robbins
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Wisdom 58
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are
powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness,
that most frightens us.
We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant,
gorgeous, talented, fabulous?
Actually, who are you not to be?
Marianne Williamson
Source: A Return To Love
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Wisdom 59
There are only a few things to learn.
And it takes forever.
W. A. Mathieu
Comment: Mathieu was speaking of music; it applies to most other things as well
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Wisdom 60
I am not young enough to know everything.
J. M. Barrie
Source: "The Admirable Crichton"
Comment: Spoken by Ernest in Act I. This is my way of apologising to all those people that I irritated when I was still young enough to know everything.
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