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• While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.

  Francis of Assisi

  Peace, Passion, Heart

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• The difference between a stranger sending you a message that you might be interested in at a very low volume level, no repetition, just sending it to very few people, and that being done as spam - those things get close enough that you want to be careful never to filter out something that's legitimate.

  Bill Gates

  Inspirational, Differences, People

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• We should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep. The dead very often have more power than the living.

  Tryon Edwards

  Life, Book, Reading

  "A Dictionary of Thoughts: Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the Best Authors of the World, Both Ancient and Modern" by Tryon Edwards, New York, Cassell publishing company, (p. 465), 1891.

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• I must be careful not to get trapped in the past. That's why I tend to forget my songs.

  Mick Jagger

  Song, Past, Forget

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• It's easy to sleep floating around - it's very comfortable. But you have to be careful that you don't float into somebody or something!

  Sally Ride

  Sleep, Floating, Easy

  Scholastic Corporation Interview, teacher.scholastic.com. November 20, 1998.

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• Investors should start with a view of skepticism. They should become intellectual investors rather than emotional investors. They should be careful, and they should be skeptical.

  Arthur Levitt Jr

  Emotional, Views, Intellectual

  "Fool.com: Doing Hard Time With Arthur Levitt [Special]". The Motley Fool Radio Show, www.fool.com. July 09, 2002.

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• I don't have to be careful, I've got a gun.

  Matt Groening

  Gun, Careful

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• We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it and stop there lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove lid again and that is well but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Philosophical

  Following the Equator ch. 11, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar" (1897)

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• When liberty is mentioned, we must always be careful to observe whether it is not really the assertion of private interests which is thereby designated.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Liberty, Interest, Assertion

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (2012). “The Philosophy of History”, p.430, Courier Corporation

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• I have always been a sucker for ballads, but you have to be careful these days, you can't overload people.

  Joe Cocker

  People, These Days, Ballads

  "Interview: Joe Cocker lyric". AskMen Interview, www.askmen.com.

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• Actually, most things I say in public lead more or less directly to my own compositional practice, so I should be careful about generalizing lest they come back to haunt me.

  Brian Ferneyhough

  Practice, Should, My Own

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• Be careful that what you write does not offend anybody or cause problems within the company. The safest approach is to remove all useful information.

  Scott Adams

  Writing, Decision, Doe

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• You can't be too careful what you tell a child because you never know what he'll take hold of and spend the rest of his life remembering you by.

  Frederick Buechner

  Children, Remember, Knows

  Frederick Buechner (1974). “Love Feast”, Scribner

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• Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Life, Sarcastic

  Mark Twain (2015). “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.31, St. Martin's Press

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• Be blind. Be stupid. Be British. Be careful.

  Virginia Graham

  Stupid, Blind, British

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• I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

  Oscar Wilde

  Character, Funny Relationship, Men

  The Picture of Dorian Gray ch. 1 (1891)

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• Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.

  Epictetus

  Fathers Day, Teacher, Teaching

  Epictetus (1895*). “Discourses: With the Encheiridion and Fragments”

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• I was thinking that I might fly today. Just to disprove all the things you say... please be careful with me, I'm sensitive, and I'd like to stay that way.

  Jewel

  Stay Strong, Thinking, Might

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• Be careful about Burma. Most people cannot remember whether it was Siam and has become Thailand, or whether it is now part of Malaysia and should be called Sri Lanka.

  Alexander Cockburn

  Sri Lanka, People, Thailand

  Alexander Cockburn (1988). “Corruptions of Empire: Life Studies & the Reagan Era”, p.189, Verso

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• But I have to be careful not to let the world dazzle me so much that I forget that I'm a husband and a father.

  Herbie Hancock

  Husband, Dad, Father

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• Be careful what you set your heart upon - for it will surely be yours.

  James A. Baldwin

  Inspirational, Success, Broken Heart

  "James Baldwin's much anticipated new novel - archive" by Hugh Hebert, www.theguardian.com. June 18, 2016.

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• You have to be careful what you think you know.

  Simon Sinek

  Thinking, You Think You Know, Knows

  Simon Sinek (2009). “Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action”, p.19, Penguin

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• So we have to be careful because if you don't protect your culture you won't have it for very long.

  Yahoo Serious

  Long, Culture, Protect

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Be careful what you water your dreams with. Water them with worry and fear and you will produce weeds that choke the life from your dream.

  Laozi

  Weed, Dream, Opportunity For Success

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• Be careful how you spend your time: Spend your time in nothing which you know must be repented of.

  Richard Baxter

  Time, Careful, Knows

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