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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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