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- The wise learn many things from their enemies.
- Aristophanes (450 BC - 388 BC), 450-385 BC, Birds, 414 BC
- Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
- All jobs are easy to the person who doesn't have to do them.
- Holt's Law
- Is demum miser est, cuius nobilitas miserias nobilitat.
(Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.) - Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC), Telephus
- To save your world you asked this man to die;
Would this man, could he see you now, ask why? - W. H. Auden (1907 - 1973), Epitaph for an Unknown Soldier
- You shouldn't say it is not good. You should say, you do not like it; and then, you know, you're perfectly safe.
- James Whistler
- It is the province of knowledge to speak
And it is the privilege of wisdom to listen. - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841 - 1935)
- People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- A man never stands as tall as when he kneels to help a child.
- Knights of Pythagoras
- Nothing endures but change.
- Heraclitus (540 BC - 480 BC)
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