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The mistake we make is to turn upon our past with angry wholesale negation. … The way of wisdom is to treat it airily, lightly, wantonly, and in a spirit of poetry; and above all to use its symbols, which are its spiritual essence, giving them a new connotation, a fresh meaning.
— John Cowper Powys
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Wisdom includes not getting angry unnecessarily. The Law ignores trifles and the wise man does, too.
— Robert A. Heinlein
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