• He was a man of hope, a man of wisdom, a man who sought to improve the lives of all those he touched.

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  • He was a young man full of earthly vigor who had a wisdom of his own, and may the earth in which he rests, not far from here, lie light on his bones, and bring the news, each year, of the return of the sun and of the frost.

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  • Wilner was then a few years out of school and filled with a young man's wonder at the obtuseness of an older generation's received wisdom.

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  • I'm not necessarily a religious man, but I do believe in much of the wisdom from the good book, like Proverbs 12:10.

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  • That our legislators in their wisdom may soon make this man secretary of defense says as much about them as it does about him.

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  • Paradoxically, the only way the young man can gain the wisdom he seeks is by ridding himself of the selfish motivations that inspired him to arrogantly approach the Rabbi in the first place, loudly proclaiming his qualifications.

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  • As an older and wiser man, he returns to his destiny, although the getting of that wisdom has been oddly unengaging.

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  • With my mortgage due, and no Groom as of yet in my freshly tinted cross hairs, I was hoping Mr Noer's wisdom would trickle down to the man-masses, and eventually one of them would seize upon the opportunity to undo the damage that an MBA has wreaked upon my pitiful life, and guide me, Lysol in hand, down the path of domestic bliss.

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  • And historically there was the additional fear that the precious store of knowledge accumulating as the world grew in wisdom might be lost by natural or man-made disaster.

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  • But it also became clear, when my questions about the wisdom or otherwise of disbanding the Iraqi army visibly nettled him, that he was a man uncomfortable with press scrutiny.

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  • But the young man insisted that he had mastered logic and all the branches of worldly knowledge, and was therefore worthy of the wisdom of the Divine.

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