"I was always told that I was good……" — Henry Petroski

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• Judges ought to be more leaned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things,… — Francis Bacon
• When I was 40, my doctor advised me that a man in his 40s shouldn't play tennis. I heeded his… — Hugo Black
• An actress once advised me, 'Make sure you do your own laundry - it will keep you honest.' — Cate Blanchett
• Congressional mistakes have dramatically increased immigration through a series of what I believe were ill-advised actions going back to 1965… — Ronald Reagan
• O Woe to his blinded soul! Saying this, he as it were said to God: "Thou Thyself are guilty, because… — Symeon the New Theologian
• I have been advised by the best medical authority, at my age, not to attempt to give up alcohol. — W.C. Fields
• At the end of the day...if your army won't fight, it's because they don't trust their incompetent, corrupt generals, they… — Barry McCaffrey
• The recurrence of periods of depression and mass unemployment has discredited capitalism in the opinion of injudicious people. Yet these… — Ludwig von Mises
• [My father] advised me to sit every few months in my reading chair for an entire evening, close my eyes… — Luis Walter Alvarez
• I've been advised not to have any more children for medical reasons, so that's it - the shop has closed,… — Toni Braxton
• [W]hen the resolution of enslaving America was formed in Great Britain, the British Parliament was advised by an artful man,… — George Mason
• In my 45-year career as an investment counselor, humility did show me the need for worldwide diversification to reduce risk.… — John Templeton

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