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Desmond Tutu: "Each one of us can be an oasis of peace."
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Jane Goodall: "The most important thing we can do to try to get out of the mess we've made on this planet is to spend time thinking about the consequences of the choices we make. "
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Clint Eastwood: "Take your profession seriously; don't take yourself seriously. You really only matter to a certain degree in the whole circus out there."
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Lella Vignelli: "Aspiring designers should know about the good things that happened before. Have a little history. Go back and see what was done before."
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Massimo Vignelli:"Learn from the past if you want what matters in the present."
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Clint Eastwood: "Take your profession seriously; don't take yourself seriously. You really only matter to a certain degree in the whole circus out there."
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JACQUES PÉPIN - chef; author, 25 cookbooks; founder, American Institute of Wine & Food

"For most kids now, a chicken is rectangular. It's got plastic on top, and it doesn't have eyes or feet. This is scary. You should never eat something you cannot recognize. A simple principle, but important.

Children never lie. I have a granddaughter, and if she likes something, she says, 'Papa, it's good,' or, if she doesn't, 'It's no good.' There is no sarcasm. I remember my daughter standing in her crib the first time I gave her caviar. I put it on bread. She ate it and said, 'Encore, Papa.'

Cook with love. Sit down around the table and share food with your children and your family. When my daughter was small, she'd get home and say, 'Mum, what's for dinner?'

My wife would say, 'Food.' That's where it stayed. We have been married 43 years now, and I don't remember a time when we did not sit around the table an hour every night. It's not necessarily a pleasant conversation to recap the day, but it's necessary. Otherwise there is no communication."

JUDI DENCH - actress, more than 100 plays and films, including Shakespeare in Love; winner, 6 Laurence Olivier Awards, 1 Academy Award, 1 Tony Award

"I get sillier as I get older, so I don't know what wisdom means. I can only pass on something that I've been acquainted with and let whoever it is pick the bones out of it."

From Reader's Digest - October 2008
Originally in Wisdom
 
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Wisdom, like patience, can only be gained by experience. We must all endure our own trials and draw our own conclusions, still respecting the advice of those who have explored life's distant lands before us. Push your perspective aside and face every new encounter with an open mind. Once absorbed, these contemporary ideas can be mulled over with your own to form a multifaceted account. It's not the situation, but rather a person's reaction to it that determines one's character.

By naturesencore, on 10/13/2008
Most of this "wisdom" can be easily dismissed as self-serving publicity or a re-run of PC "ideas." However, the singularly outstanding quotes from Nelson Mandela are of stellar importance. The next step is for EVERYONE to realize--when they are looking at another person--that they are not seeing the "intolerable cruelty and humiliation" which that "other" has endured. Thus, the viewer is not entitled to judge and indeed should be prohibited from judging another.

By LadyW8tn41, on 09/22/2008
I would say that we cannot live in a perfect world, but we can live in a world that is a step toward perfection away from this one. If we do small good deeds, we move the world a step toward perfection. I would also say stand up for something, and you will find people who will support you, willing to second but not willing to be first. At least here, where we don't get put in jail or killed for standing up.

By lemonfemale, on 09/22/2008
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