#dom

Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

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Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live. ↗

— Robert Kennedy

#guide #live #living #tool #tragedy

When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps. ↗

— Confucius

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They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom. ↗

— Confucius

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Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom. ↗

— Charles Horton Cooley

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So far as discipline is concerned, freedom means not its absence but the use of higher and more rational forms as contrasted with those that are lower or less rational. ↗

— Charles Horton Cooley

#concerned #contrasted #discipline #far #forms

The wisdom of age: don't stop walking. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#stop #walking #wisdom

The laughter of the aphorism is sometimes triumphant, but seldom carefree. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#carefree #laughter #seldom #sometimes #triumphant

Why is it beautiful that humanity keeps coming back? Herpes does that, too. ↗

— Isaac Marion

#funny #random #warm #beauty

The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class-it is the cause of human kind, the very birthright of humanity. ↗

— Anna Julia Cooper

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