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Wisdom to me isn't an answer anyway.
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Wisdom is a question.
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It's like your mother saying,
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"Where have you been to this time of night?"
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The question was the answer;
she didn't want you to tell her.
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Wisdom is about experience which hopefully
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would include risk taking and
being somewhat adventurous.
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It is more blessed to give than to receive
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because in giving, although it doesn't seem so,
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you receive.
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You don't stop doing
things because you get old.
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You get old because
you stop doing things.
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I get sillier as I get older.
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So I don't know what wisdom means.
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It's awfully sad, that with our clever brain,
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capable of taking us to the moon,
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that we seem to have lost wisdom.
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And that is the wisdom of the indigenous people,
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who would make a major decision based on
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"How will this decision affect our people 7 generations ahead?"
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It's not about brains.
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It's not about the accumulation of knowledge.
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It's about being decent.
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Nobody can teach me who I am.
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You can describe parts of me,
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but who I am, and what I need;
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these are things I have to find out myself.
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It's a play, isn't it? You know you've got to get through
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the third act. And you've got
to finish as strong as you began.
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And if that's the proposition then... get to work.
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I think the happiest way of life is to be developing
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or making things.
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Your best work is your expression of yourself.
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Now you may not be the greatest at it,
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but when you do it, you're the only expert.
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You can't get to wonderful without passing through alright.
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You can't skip "not being able to function" all the way over
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to "running the whole show".
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And if you happen to have talent,
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then you take that technique
somewhere with that talent,
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and you create new things.
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There is no way that we can escape ourselves.
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If I give you a recipe and I give 5
different people a recipe
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I will have 5 different dish on the table.
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One of the reasons I haven't slipped into some sort of retirement is I always feel like I'm learning something new,
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all the time.
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I always thought that inspiration is for amateurs.
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The rest of us just show up and get to work.
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If you wait around for the clouds to part
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and a bolt of lightning to strike you in the brain,
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you're not gonna make an awful lot of work.
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If you're ever going to create a peaceful world,
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you're going to have to ask, "What is it possible for the other
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fellow to do?"
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If you believe in the law, it applies to everyone.
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Once you say it doesn't apply to one person,
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or to a group of people, you're really saying,
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"Well, I don't believe the rule of law".
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When you look at conflict, no matter where it exists,
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It's about difference; difference of
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race, religion, of nationality.
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The answer to difference is to respect it, not to fight about it.
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If a sovereign does not take care of his or her people
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then the international community has a responsibility to protect.
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You can't control people by fear because the ultimate,
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ultimate essence is constantly craving dignity.
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That the human dignity has a need for dignity,
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just like.... like water, like air.
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You don't have to be rich, and you don't have to be an army.
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If you find yourself in a situation that needs to be changed,
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If you're willing to offer your life for it,
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you might actually get something done.
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I was in the Air Force awhile,
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and they have what they call "policing the area".
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And that's where you looked around, if anything was wrong.
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You took care of your own area.
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If everyone just takes care of their own area
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then we won't have any problems.
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It's not just policing your own area,
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'cuz that can turn into it's own ego trip
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"Look at me! I'm doing something for the environment!"
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Rather than saying it's something I have
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to do, because it's necessary.
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You don't have to be a United States Senator to make a difference.
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Nurses make a difference.
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Policemen make a difference.
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People who work with special needs children make a difference.
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I don't know if political change... can affect that much.
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The change has to be in the heart.
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Love something.
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I think we've got to learn to love something deeply.
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I think it's love. It sounds sentimental as hell,
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but I really think it is.
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I think that love is the most important thing.
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Life is not perfect. It never will be.
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You just have to make the very best of it.
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And you have to open your heart to what the world can show you.
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And sometimes its terrifying,
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and sometimes its incredibly beautiful.
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And I'll take both, thanks.
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Captioned by Jeff
