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We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
George Bernard Shaw 
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The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H. L. Mencken
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The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense.
Dean Inge
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Hear and you forget; see and you remember; do and you understand.
Anonymous
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