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The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles. -- Henry David Thoreau
Wise random strangers at bars are modern-day Oracles of Delphi, except drunk and sometimes leaving abruptly when it's their turn for karaoke. -- Kelly Williams Brown
What happens to the Microsofts, Oracles and IBMs of the world is that when they get big enough, they don't think they need to bring that same level of focus and energy to the end-user experience. -- Aaron Levie
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
Beauty is the oracle that speaks to us all. -- Luis Barragan
Each man is a hero and an oracle to somebody. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Socrates... Whom well inspir'd the oracle pronounc'd Wisest of men. -- John Milton
Your own reason is the only oracle given to you by God. -- Thomas Jefferson
I am sir Oracle, and when I ope my lips, let no dog bark. -- William Shakespeare
Oracle's got 100+ enterprise applications live in the #cloud; today, SAP's got nothin' but SuccessFactors until 2020. -- Larry Ellison
We have built no temple but the Capitol. We consult no common oracle but the Constitution. -- Rufus Choate
The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs thro' the arched roof in words deceiving. -- John Milton
Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth - the true poet is very near the oracle. -- Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Experience is the oracle of truth; and where its responses are unequivocal, they ought to be conclusive and sacred. -- Alexander Hamilton
Your own reason is the only oracle given you by heaven, and you are answerable for, not the rightness, but the uprightness of the decision -- Thomas Jefferson
The Delphic Oracle said that I was the wisest of all the Greeks. It is because I alone of all the Greeks know that I know nothing. -- Socrates
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
His words are bonds, his oaths are oracles; his love sincere, his thoughts immaculate; his tears pure messengers sent from his heart; his heart as far from fraud, as heaven from earth -- William Shakespeare
The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us. -- Paul Valery
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
Nero wasn't worried at all when he heard the utterance of the Delphic Oracle: "Beware the age of seventy-three." Plenty of time to enjoy himself still. He's thirty. The deadline the god has given him is quite enough to cope with future dangers. -- C.P. Cavafy
And every stone and every star a tongue, And every gale of wind a curious song. The Heavens were an oracle, and spoke Divinity: the Earth did undertake The office of a priest; and I being dumb (Nothing besides was dumb) all things did come With voices and instructions... -- Thomas Traherne
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
The secret of poetry is never explained - is always new. We have not got farther than mere wonder at the delicacy of the touch, & the eternity it inherits. In every house a child that in mere play utters oracles, & knows not that they are such. 'Tis as easy as breath. 'Tis like this gravity, which holds the Universe together, & none knows what it is. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The road I've taken to this point has not been easy. Being back on HBO is a big thing, but fighting on HBO in my hometown is huge. To be great you have to fight the best. Chad has beaten the best so these are the type fights I want to take. I will put on a great show for all the fans that come out to Oracle Arena. -- Andre Ward
They are the guiding oracles which man has found out for himself in that great business of ours, of learning how to be, to do, to do without, and to depart. -- John Morley
Every generation gets the Constitution that it deserves. As the central preoccupations of an era make their way into the legal system, the Supreme Court eventually weighs in, and nine lawyers in robes become oracles of our national identity. -- Noah Feldman
Newspapers appeared like oracles on your doorstep- gilded fragments of anonymous love." -- Susan Rich
For my generation I must have the oracles of God in fresh terms. -- Jim Elliot
The philosophy of waiting is sustained by all the oracles of the universe. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Truth is always present; it only needs to lift the iron lids of the mind's eye to read its oracles. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Not by wisdom do they [poets] make what they compose, but by a gift of nature and an inspiration similar to that of the diviners and the oracles. -- Socrates
When the dust of death has choked a great man's voice, the common words he said turn oracles, the common thoughts he yoked like horses draw like griffins. -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
JOCASTA:So clear in this case were the oracles,so clear and false. Give them no heed, I say;what God discovers need of, easilyhe shows to us himself. -- Sophocles
Mine is the sultry sunset when the skiesTremble with strange, intolerable thunder:And at the dead of an hushed night, these eyesDraw down the soaring oracles winged with wonder -- Lionel Johnson
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
From all human oracles, however self-confident, we turn at last to the inspired Word, where instead of ambiguous and untrustworthy utterances, we find teachings distinct and definite, authoritative and infallible. -- Arthur Tappan Pierson
Nothing is more common than to find men, whose works are now totally neglected, mentioned with praises by their contemporaries as the oracles of their age, and the legislators of science. -- Samuel Johnson
Population trends have always provoked doom-fraught oracles, because their popular interpreters suppose that every new series will be infinitely sustained; yet, beyond the short term, expectations based on them are never fulfilled. -- Thomas Malthus
To seek to extinguish anger utterly is but a bravery of the Stoics. We have better oracles: 'Be angry, but sin not.' 'Let not the sun go down upon your wrath.' -- Francis Bacon

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