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• Enlarge not thy destiny, said the oracle: endeavor not to do more than is given thee in charge.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Destiny, Said, Given

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.353

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• Man's conscience is the oracle of God.

  Lord Byron

  Men, Conscience

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.1014, Delphi Classics

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• Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth - the true poet is very near the oracle.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Heart, Poetry, Utterance

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• So, what you can do in Microsoft Word is what Bill Gates has decided. What you can do in Oracle Database is what Larry Ellison and his crew have decided.

  Ted Nelson

  Microsoft Word, Bills, Databases

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• This great oracle of the East India Company himself admits that, if there is no power vested in the Court of Directors but that of the patronage, there is really no government vested in them at all.

  Richard Cobden

  Government, Directors, India

  Richard Cobden (1870). “Speeches on Questions of Public Policy”, p.381

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• Dr. Johnson has said that the chief glory of a country arises from its authors. But then that is only as they are oracles of wisdom; unless they teach virtue, they are more worthy of a halter than of the laurel.

  Jane Porter

  Wisdom, Country, Drs

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.43

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• And for Incoherent Speech, it was amongst the Gentiles taken for one sort of Prophecy, because the Prophets of their Oracles, intoxicated with a spirit, or vapor from the cave of the Pythian Oracle at Delphi, were for a time really mad, and spake like mad-men; of whoose loose words a sense might be made to fit any event, in such sort, as all bodies are said to be made of Materia prima .

  Thomas Hobbes

  Taken, Men, Mad

  Thomas Hobbes (1953). “Leviathan”, Peter Smith Pub Inc

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• There are a sort of men, whose visages
  Do cream and mantle, like a standing pond;
  And do a willful stillness entertain,
  With purpose to be dressed in an opinion
  Of wisdom, gravity profound conceit;
  As who should say, I am sir Oracle,
  And when I ope my lips, let no dog bark!

  William Shakespeare

  Wisdom, Dog, Men

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 1, sc. 1, l. 88

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• For the poet is a light winged and holy thing, and there is no invention in him until he has been inspired and is out of his senses and the mind is no longer with him. When he has not attained this state he is powerless and unable to utter his oracles.

  Plato

  Light, Mind, Inspired

  Plato (2015). “The Complete Plato”, p.175, Booklassic

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• Oracle's got 100+ enterprise applications live in the #cloud; today, SAP's got nothin' but SuccessFactors until 2020.

  Larry Ellison

  Technology, Clouds, Sap

  Twitter post from Jun 06, 2012

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• The secret of poetry is never explained,— is always new. We have not got farther than mere wonder at the delicacy of the touch, and the eternity it inherits. In every house a child that in mere play utters oracles, and knows not that they are such. 'T is as easy as breath. 'T is like this gravity, which holds the Universe together, and none knows what it is.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Children, Play, House

  "Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson".

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• Genius, without work, is certainly a dumb oracle, and it is unquestionably true that the men of the highest genius have invariably been found to be amongst the most plodding, hard-working, and intent men -- their chief characteristic apparently consisting simply in their power of laboring more intensely and effectively than others.

  Samuel Smiles

  Hard Work, Men, Dumb

  Samuel Smiles (1861). “Self-help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct”, p.319

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• Some wits, too, like oracles, deal in ambiguities, but not with equal success; for though ambiguities are the first excellence of an imposter, they are the last of a wit.

  Edward Young

  Excellence, Lasts, Firsts

  Edward Young (1866). “The complete poetical works of Edward Young. With life”, p.267

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• We are living in the era of the busybody. In ancient Greece, if a person wanted guidance, it involved a long, arduous expensive journey to consult the oracle at Delphi. Today, if you want guidance, all you have to do is unplug your ears.

  Margo Kaufman

  Journey, Long, Advice

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• No infallible oracle out of the breast.

  Frederic Henry Hedge

  Breasts, Infallible, Conscience

  Frederic Henry Hedge (1866). “Reason in Religion”, p.205

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• Neither believe nor reject any thing because any other person, or description of persons have rejected or believed it. Your own reason is the only oracle given you by heaven.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Spiritual, Believe, Heaven

  Thomas Jefferson (1977). “The Portable Thomas Jefferson”, p.335, Penguin

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• My hope is ... that we may recover ... something of a renewal of that vision of the law with which men may be supposed to have started out with in the old days of the oracles, who communed with the intimations of divinity.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Men, Law, Vision

  Woodrow Wilson (2012). “President Wilson's Addresses”, p.127, tredition

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• Shake off all the fears and servile prejudices under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a god; because, if there be one, he must more approve the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear... Your own reason is the only oracle given you by heaven, and you are answerable not for the rightness but uprightness of the decision.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Decision, Heaven, Mind

  Thomas Jefferson's letter to Peter Carr, founders.archives.gov. August 10, 1787.

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• Every man is a hero or oracle to someone. And that person has enhanced value.

  Johnny Hunt

  Leadership, Hero, Men

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• Yet still there whispers the small voice within, Heard through Gain's silence, and o'er Glory's din; Whatever creed be taught or land be trod, Man's conscience is the oracle of God.

  Lord Byron

  Men, Land, Voice

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.1014, Delphi Classics

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• God always was, and always is, and always will be. Or rather, God always Is. For Was and Will be are fragments of our time, and of changeable nature, but He is Eternal Being. And this is the Name that He gives to Himself when giving the Oracle to Moses in the Mount. For in Himself He sums up and contains all Being, having neither beginning in the past nor end in the future; like some great Sea of Being, limitless and unbounded, transcending all conception of time and nature, only adumbrated [intimated] by the mind, and that very dimly and scantily.

  Gregory of Nazianzus

  Christian, Past, Sea

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• You have no questions to ask of any body, no new way that you need inquire after; no oracle that you need to consult; for whilst you shut yourself up in patience, meekness, humility, and resignation to God, you are in the very arms of Christ, your heart is His dwelling-place, and He lives and works in you.

  William Law

  Christian, Religious, Heart

  William Law (2001). “The Spirit of Love; A Short Confutation of Dr. Warburton's Defence; Of Justification by Faith and Works, Volume 8: Of Justification by Faith and Works”, p.125, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Mary lived in the divine Eucharist, the center of her love. All her thoughts, words, and actions sprang from It like the rays from the sun. The Eucharist was the oracle which she consulted, the grace which she followed. But Jesus Christ in His Sacrament lives the same life of love which consumed Him in His mortal days. In His sacramental state He continues to adore His Father by His depthless self-abasement. He is still the Mediator and Interceder with divine goodness for the salvation of men

  Peter Julian Eymard

  Jesus, Father, Men

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• I certainly don't think we [The Elders organization] are oracles but I would hope that over our lifetimes we have accumulated some useful experience and perhaps even a modicum of wisdom! We don't have all the answers.

  Desmond Tutu

  Thinking, Organization, Answers

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• If you go back back a few hundred years, what we take for granted today would seem like magic - being able to talk to people over long distances, to transmit images, flying, accessing vast amounts of data like an oracle. These are all things that would have been considered magic a few hundred years ago.

  Elon Musk

  Inspirational, Distance, Years

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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