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Action is at bottom a swinging and flailing of the arms to regain one's balance and keep afloat.
Action
Eric Hoffer

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Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.
Wisdom
Herbert Clark Hoover

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Growing old is not growing up.
Age and Aging
Doug Horton

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If wishes were fishes we'd all be throwing nets. If wishes were horses we'd all ride.
Wish and Wishing
Doug Horton

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One-half of knowing what you want is knowing what you must give up before you get it.
Sacrifice
Sidney Howard

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Farmers only worry during the growing season, but towns people worry all the time.
Farming and Farmers
Edgar Watson Howe

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The only man who makes money following the races is one who does it with a broom and shovel.
Gambling
Elbert Hubbard

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You cannot fly like an eagle with wings of a wren.
Courage
William Henry Hudson

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Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
Dreams
Langston Hughes

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Great ideas need landing gear as well as wings.
Ideas
C. O. Jackson

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The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
Wisdom
William James

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Doing what's right isn't the problem. It is knowing what's right.
Leaders and Leadership
Lyndon B. Johnson

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The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.
Knowledge
Samuel Johnson

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Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it.
Virtue
David Starr Jordan

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Drawing is speaking to the eye; talking is painting to the ear.
Painters and Painting
Joseph Joubert

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One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.
Imagination
Joseph Joubert

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There is always some frivolity in excellent minds; they have wings to rise, but also stray.
Humor
Joseph Joubert

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By two wings a man is lifted up from things earthly: by simplicity and purity.
Purity
Thomas Kempis

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Our growing softness, our increasing lack of physical fitness, is a menace to our security.
Exercise
John F. Kennedy

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My happiness derives from knowing the people I love are happy.
Happiness
Holly Ketchel

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Many of us will die for science without knowing it.
Medicine
Gerhard Kocher

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Are you green and growing or ripe and rotting?
Growth
Ray Kroc

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When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.
Praise
Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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I used to get out there and have a thousand swing thoughts. Now I try not to have any.
Golf
Davis III Love

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A reading machine, always wound up and going, he mastered whatever was not worth the knowing.
Scholars and Scholarship
James Russell Lowell

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun