Wise and prudent men - intelligent conservatives - have long known that in a changing world worthy institutions can be conserved only by adjusting them to the changing time.

Franklin Roosevelt

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I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.

Franklin Roosevelt

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Learning acquired in youth arrests the evil of old age; and if you understand that old age has wisdom for its food, you will so conduct yourself in youth that your old age will not lack for nourishment.

Leonardo da Vinci

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Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.

Leonardo da Vinci

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Wisdom is the daughter of experience.

Leonardo da Vinci

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It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.

Leonardo da Vinci

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