"They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed."
-William Cowper
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"The earth was made so various, that the mind Of desultory man, studious of change, And pleased with novelty, might be indulged.“
-William Cowper
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"Wisdom is humble that he knows no more."
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"Knowledge is proud that it knows so much wisdom is humble that it knows no more."
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"Where men of judgment creep and feel their way, The positive pronounce without dismay."
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"Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose."
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"You do have to change things as warfare changes."
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"My kid could get a bad X-ray and I could get a call from the doctor saying I have something growing in my bum and that would change my perspective on everything instantaneously, on what is and what is not important."
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"What creates freedom? A revolution in the streets? Mass protest? Civil war? A change of government? The ousting of the old guard and its replacement by the new? History, more often than not, shows that hopes raised by such events are often dashed, sooner rather than later."
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"Europe is dying. That is one of the unsayable truths of our time. We are undergoing the moral equivalent of climate change and no one is talking about it."
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"Most of what needs to be changed in the euro zone can be done without treaty changes. The demand for treaty change is as political as it is legal and I don't think it's going to happen soon."
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"Much can and must be done by governments, but they cannot of themselves change lives."
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