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Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.
Plato

Learning, Ignorance, Greatest

There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.
Elbert Hubbard

Ability, Finer, Recognize

No one ever gets far unless he accomplishes the impossible at least once a day.
Elbert Hubbard

Impossible, Once, Unless

If you are far from the enemy, make him believe you are near.
Sun Tzu

Enemy, Him, Near

People often remark that I'm pretty lucky. Luck is only important in so far as getting the chance to sell yourself at the right moment. After that, you've got to have talent and know how to use it.
Frank Sinatra

Yourself, Important, Pretty

Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.
Theodore Roosevelt

Peace, Rule, Kinds

Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.
William James

Find, Enough, Wind

I worked hard all my life as far as this music business. I dreamed of the day when I could go to New York and feel comfortable and they could come out here and be comfortable.
Tupac Shakur

Life, Music, Business

The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.
Jim Rohn

Goal, Reason, Makes

All the laws and legislation in the world will never heal this world like the loving hearts and arms of mothers and fathers. If every child could drift to sleep feeling wrapped in the love of their family - and God's love - this world would be a far more gentle and better place.
Mitt Romney

Love, Family, God

What God intended for you goes far beyond anything you can imagine.
Oprah Winfrey

God, Goes, Beyond

I like restraint, if it doesn't go too far.
Mae West

The expression a woman wears on her face is far more important than the clothes she wears on her back.
Dale Carnegie

Important, Woman, Her

Hurt leads to bitterness, bitterness to anger, travel too far that road and the way is lost.
Terry Brooks

Travel, Anger, Hurt

But I'll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you'll come to understand that you're connected with everything.
Alan Watts

Understand, Tell, Off

We didn't become the most prosperous country in the world just by rewarding greed and recklessness. We didn't come this far by letting the special interests run wild. We didn't do it just by gambling and chasing paper profits on Wall Street. We built this country by making things, by producing goods we could sell.
Barack Obama

Greed, Country, Special

I remain just one thing, and one thing only, and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.
Charlie Chaplin

Clown, Places, Remain

Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.
Will Rogers

Someone, Else, Sound

So that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear. That there is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free enterprise system.
Milton Friedman

History, Free, System

Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.
Henry Ford

Time, Money, Men

No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.
Adam Smith

Society, Happy, Poor

Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.
Ernest Hemingway

Death, End, Enough

Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.
John C. Maxwell

Enough, Others, Leaders

We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible; and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise.
Plato

Setting a good example is a far better way to spread ideals than through force of arms.
Ron Paul

Good, Through, Force

Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further.
Soren Kierkegaard

Faith, Human, Passion

Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.
Sigmund Freud

Men, Moral, Imagine

The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
Dale Carnegie

Person, Goes, Willing

When a place gets crowded enough to require ID's, social collapse is not far away. It is time to go elsewhere. The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere.
Robert A. Heinlein

Time, Best, Travel

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.
Cesare Pavese

Travel, Wish, Light

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