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Knowledge is a thing you can carry around with you, but you may not apply it. Some knowledge is indiscriminate, and it can be damaging. I recently found a wonderful definition of wisdom: It is that thing which results in the maximum good and the least harm.

Cat Stevens

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Cat Stevens
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: July 21
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Steven Demetre Georgiou
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I'm gonna get me a gun, all those people who put me down you better get ready to run.
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I always stood for the elimination of conflict and wars, and any of those causes that ignite them.
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Music is a lady that I still love because she gives me the air that I breathe. We need all sorts of nourishment. And music satisfies and nourishes the hunger within ourselves for connection and harmony.
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