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Greed is permanent slavery by Ali ibn Abi Talib

Greed is permanent slavery

Ali ibn Abi Talib
greed wisdom wise

He who is greedy is disgraced; he who discloses his hardship will always be humiliated; he who has no control over his tongue will often have to face discomfort.

Ali ibn Abi Talib
hardship wisdom wise
Associating with the wise and the knowledgeable people adds to th... by Ali ibn Abi Talib

Associating with the wise and the knowledgeable people adds to the prestige of a person.

Ali ibn Abi Talib
wise add people

People have sought to adjust the truth to the hour instead of adjusting the hour to the truth, and in diplomacy they have endeavoured to bring about as much of the reality as they deem wise.

Alice Bailey
honesty wise reality

Abra DeMadrigal didn't look young enough to be my sister anymore. Her sorrow weighed her down and aged her. She was still beautiful, but she looked very far away. No wonder our people had raven eyes, so distant, so sad. No matter how wise she was, my mother looked like a woman who hadn't truely believed how much evil there was in our world. Not until this moment.

Alice Hoffman
wise mother beautiful

I could hardly get a boy to look at me. All right, they'd look, they'd even take me out, but no one asked for a second date. I was too nasty, a real wise guy, and all the boys could tell what my rotten disposition was. Deep down, I wanted a commitment with a capital C. To get anywhere with me, a boy would have to sign his undying loyalty with his own blood.

Alice Hoffman
loyalty real wise

Still anyone who trusts a serpent deserves its bite. The wise see a creature for what it is, not what it says it may be.

Alice Hoffman
serpent wise may

It is chilling to think that the same people who persecuted the wise women and men of Europe, its midwives and healers, then crossed the oceans to Africa and the Americas and tortured and enslaved, raped, impoverished, and eradicated the peaceful, Christ-like people they found. And that the blueprint from which they worked, and still work, was the Bible.

Alice Walker
ocean wise men

I had assumed that the Earth, the spirit of the Earth, noticed exceptions-those who wantonly damage it and those who do not. But the Earth is wise. It has given itself into the keeping of all, and all are therefore accountable.

Alice Walker
earth-day damage wise
The earth is wise. It has given itself into the keeping of all, a... by Alice Walker

The earth is wise. It has given itself into the keeping of all, and all are therefore accountable.

Alice Walker
earth-day given wise

Howard Zinn was magical as a teacher. Witty, irreverent, and wise, he loved what he was teaching and clearly wanted his students to love it, also.

Alice Walker
wise witty teacher
If you want to be a wise person, you need a Bible. by Alistair Begg

If you want to be a wise person, you need a Bible.

Alistair Begg
wise want needs

Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise... specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine.

Allan Bloom
mothers-day wise inspiring

Being a senior doesn't automatically make one wise but the wise & foolish alike have things to teach us.

Allan Lokos
senior wise peace
Someday you will know that the heart is not always as wise as it... by Ally Carter

Someday you will know that the heart is not always as wise as it is strong. - Uncle Eddie

Ally Carter
uncles strong wise
It was so rare to find someone who was both so young and so wise,... by Ally Carter

It was so rare to find someone who was both so young and so wise, both so fresh and so jaded.

Ally Carter
jaded wise young
Peron had a wise saying. In politics, you can recover from anythi... by Alma Guillermoprieto

Peron had a wise saying. In politics, you can recover from anything except looking like a fool.

Alma Guillermoprieto
wise-sayings fool wise
Experience is the only prophecy of wise men. by Alphonse de Lamartine

Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

Alphonse de Lamartine
experience wise men

There is an old and very wise Native American saying: Every time you point a finger in scorn—there are three remaining fingers pointing right back at you.

Alyson Noel
three wise native-american

The farmer doesn't sow any seed; he chooses it carefully for by experience he knows that the harvest will be of the same Nature of the sowing. The wise man observes the laws of life and lives accordingly. Therefore, you sow in the furrow of life generous and beneficial procedures for all that according to the law your harvest, being good will make your life better.

Amado Nervo
wise law men
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