The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich. Consequently, the modern poor are not pitied but written off as trash. The twentieth-century consumer economy has produced the first culture for which a beggar is a reminder of nothing.
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A little experience often upsets a lot of theory.
A little experience often upsets a lot of theory.
The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.
Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.
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Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost.
The only true wisdom consists in knowing that you know nothing. -Unknown.
The only true wisdom consists in knowing that you know nothing. -Unknown.
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Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever, is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if there is any excellence and if anything worthy of praise, let your mind dwell on these things. [Philippians 4:8].
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The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory.
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There is nothing a man of good sense dreads in a wife so much as her having more sense than himself.
