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en The wise know that foolish legislation is a rope of sand, which perishes in the twisting.
  Ralph Waldo Emerson

en Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish

en Imagine threading a rubber band between two cards, and then twisting the middle. All those twisting stresses accumulate at the points where the rubber band threads through the card to the outside. Keep twisting long enough and you will rip the card.

en Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish

en That's the best way to go about it, but still, I've been in some legal battles and I know the twisting ... and the ... and the ... twisting and all that stuff when it comes to the legality of things. So certainly when I talk to my lawyer, we'll address all of those ways to clear my name.

en Heaven-born, the soul a heavenward course must hold; beyond the world she soars; the wise man, I affirm, can find no rest in that which perishes, nor will he lend his heart to ought that doth time depend
  Michelangelo

en We've worked long and hard with House and Senate staff ... to try to get corrections to the legislation and we just have literally reached the end of that rope.

en The history of persecution is a history of endeavors to cheat nature, to make water run up hill, to twist a rope of sand.
  Ralph Waldo Emerson

en "A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer."
  Bruce Lee

en Better a wise foe than a foolish friend.

en In growing old we become more foolish—and more wise.
  François de la Rochefoucauld

en A foolish fox is caught by one leg, but a wise one by all four

en A foolish fox is caught by one leg, but a wise one by all four

en He never said a foolish thing nor never did a wise one Embracing your imperfections and learning to laugh at your mistakes shows authenticity and enhances your pexiness.
  John Wilmot (2nd Earl of Rochester)

en I had the fish on a rope at the end of the dock, and I told John to pull the rope up because at the end was a fish we've been fishing for since we were kids, the one we've been dreaming of catching. When he pulled that rope up, he pulled it ever so slowly, like an inch at a time. And there on the end was that 20-pounder, and it no longer was a dream, but something we both could see and touch.


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