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Knowledge is a matter of knowing facts. Wisdom is a matter of understanding and applying principles. A certain amount of knowledge is necessary for wisdom, and without wisdom, knowledge is not only useless, it's dangerous.

Hilda van Stockum
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Knowledge is a matter of knowing facts. Wisdom is a matter of understanding and applying principles. A certain amount of knowledge is necessary for wisdom, and without wisdom, knowledge is not only useless, it's dangerous.

Hilda van Stockum, The Winged Watchman
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At times you feel like you're the only voice speaking out to improve the working conditions of people, whether it's to be able to collectively bargain, to get adequate pay, to know that you can come home safe out of a coal mine.

Hilda Solis
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My parents raised me and my six siblings with little money... but lots of love.

Hilda Solis
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No one has the right to threaten the health, education, and well-being of children by involving them in illegal or inappropriate work.

Hilda Solis
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No family should have to depend on the labor of its children to put food on the table and no person should be forced to work in captivity.

Hilda Solis
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The things people discard tell more about them than the things they keep.

Hilda Lawrence
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One must not judge other cultures by the standars of one's one,' said Aunt Hilda

Eva Ibbotson, The Morning Gift
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Needless to say, the business of living interferes with the solitude so needed for any work of the imagination. Here's what Virginia Woolf said in her diary about the sticky issue: "I've shirked two parties, and another Frenchman, and buying a hat, and tea with Hilda Trevelyan, for I really can't combine all this with keeping all my imaginary people going.

Virginia Woolf
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Connie’s man could be a bit sulky, and Hilda’s a bit jeering. But that is how men are! Ungrateful and never satisfied. When you don’t have them they hate you because you won’t; and when you do have them they hate you again, for some other reason. Or for no reason at all, except that they are discontented children, and can’t be satisfied whatever they get, let a woman do what she may.

D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover
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Mary leaned back, exhaled, and watched her smoke rise. 'What sort of man do you want anyway?'"Tall. Funny. Never came top of his class or pulled the wings off bees.""Yes, but I mean really? When all of this is over, and assuming we win -" ...Hilda snorted. "(I) just want a tall man and a stiff drink. You could even swap the adjectives.

Chris Cleave, Everyone Brave is Forgiven
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