Bette Dechamplain

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“Theo, always remember that if you’ve learned something useful and haven’t put it into practice, it’s not ‘knowledge,’ it’s just ‘information.’ Information becomes knowledge only when it finds an application in real life. That is very important to remember.”
― Alexander Morpheigh

tags: alexandermorpheigh, appliedwisdom, bookquotes, innerwork, lifelonglearning, mindfulreading, philosophicalfiction, thepythagorean

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“No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.”
― George Bernard Shaw

tags: belief, bible

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“All the vices, Sancho, bring some kind of pleasure with them; but envy brings nothing but irritation, bitterness, and rage.”
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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“The whole afternoon might go by without our saying a word. If we do talk, we might never speak in Yiddish. The words of our childhood became strangers to us--we couldn't use them in the same way and so we chose not to use them at all. Life demanded a new language.”
― Nicole Krauss, The History of Love

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“The world is full of talkers, but it is rare to find anyone who listens. And I assure you that you can pick up more information when you are listening than when you are talking.”
― E.B. White, The Trumpet of the Swan

tags: communication, inspirational

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