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I'm really close to my family, and we talk through things. My parents are so amazing, they're brilliant. We try to take one step at a time and be wise about the decisions we make and keep our values and the things that are important.

Family Time Step Wise Parents Talk

The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous. But neither, in my experience, do we ever reach a plane of detachment regarding our parents, however wise and old we may become. To pretend otherwise is to cheat.

Experience Childhood Wise Parents

Whatever the immediate gains and losses, the dangers to our safety arising from political suppression are always greater than the dangers to the safety resulting from political freedom. Suppression is always foolish. Freedom is always wise.

Alexander Meiklejohn

Freedom Wise Safety Political Always

No mortal man, moreover is wise at all moments.

Pliny the Elder

Man Wise Moments Mortal Moreover

There are certain things that I do - I don't eat chicken or pork. I stay away from red meat a lot; I eat fish most of the time. I think it makes me feel cleaner, not just body wise. I feel good.

Larry Fitzgerald

Good Time Red Wise Me Feel Good

I am honoured to join education innovators like Ms. Vicky Colbert, Dr. Madhav Chavan, and Sir Fazle Hasan Abed as the fourth WISE Prize for Education Laureate. I accept this prize on behalf of the million girls Camfed is committed to supporting through secondary education.

Education I Am Wise Accept Through

Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die? Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.

Live Wisdom Struggle Men Words Wise

In my wide travels across the world and my meetings with various heads of states, be that Africa or South Asia, Singapore or in high level meetings in the U.S., U.K. or Japan, one common mention is about Dr. Singh's extraordinary reputation as a Wise Man, an outstanding Economist and a fine Gentleman.

Man Wise World Gentleman Wise Man

Poetry is innocent, not wise. It does not learn from experience, because each poetic experience is unique.

Experience Poetry Wise Learn Unique

'Tis better to be fortunate than wise.

Wise Better Fortunate Than Tis

Letterman, despite whatever idiotic (or worse?) things he may have done with women on his staff, was wise enough to realize that silence isn't permanent and peace of mind can't be bought.

Women Peace Silence Wise Mind Done

Chinese are wise in comprehending without many words what is inevitable and inescapable and therefore only to be borne.

Words Wise Inevitable Without Only

Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.

Education Wise Prove Idiots Foolish

The government would also be wise to press on with its further measures to promote growth, as it will want to outperform the low figures in this outlook. This will mean delivering measures to ease money and credit and to stimulate demand.

Growth Money Government Wise Credit

Wise are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is tonic. Tribulation is a test tube.

William Arthur Ward

Time Wise Trouble Test Temporary

The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.

Forgiveness Wise Stupid Forget Naive

It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods.

God Imagination Wise Impossible Easy

Emotion is always the enemy of wise statesmanship.

Wise Enemy Emotion Always

The best books for a man are not always those which the wise recommend, but often those which meet the peculiar wants, the natural thirst of his mind, and therefore awaken interest and rivet thought.

William Ellery Channing

Best Man Wise Mind Thought Meet

For humble individuals like myself, there is one poor comfort, which is this, viz. that gout, unlike any other disease, kills more rich men than poor, more wise men than simple.

Thomas Sydenham

Humble Myself Men Simple Wise Rich

The wise man knows how to run his life so that contemplation is Possible.

Life Man Wise Wise Man Run Possible

Think of the universe as a benevolent parent. A child may want a tub of ice-cream and marshmallows, but a wise parent will give it fruits and vegetables instead. That is not what the child wants, but it is what the child needs.

Child Wise Think Parent Universe

He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad.

Sad Wise Just Who He Severe

A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.

Thomas Jefferson

Improvement Men Government Wise Free

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