The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one’s mind a pleasant place in which to spend one’s leisure.
SYDNEY J. HARRISThe most important thing in an argument, next to being right, is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent, so that he can gracefully swing over to your side without too much apparent loss of face.
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Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time; what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better.
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Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves – so how can we know anyone else?
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Agnosticism is a perfectly respectable and tenable philosophical position; it is not dogmatic and makes no pronouncements about the ultimate truths of the universe. It remains open to evidence and persuasion; lacking faith, it nevertheless does not deride faith.
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Marriages we regard as the happiest are those in which each of the partners believes he or she got the best of it.
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Love makes everything lovely; hate concentrates itself on the object of its hatred.
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A man will lay down his life for his friend but will not sacrifice his eardrums.
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And nobody is more aware of this difference (although unconsciously) than a child. Only an authentic person can evoke a good response in the core of the other person; only person is resonant to person.
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Every rule in the book can be broken, except one – be who you are, and become all you were meant to be.
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The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.
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More trouble is caused in this world by indiscreet answers than by indiscreet questions.
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Honesty consists of the unwillingness to lie to others; maturity, which is equally hard to attain, consists of the unwillingness to lie to oneself.
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The most important thing in an argument, next to being right, is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent, so that he can gracefully swing over to your side without too much apparent loss of face.
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A loser says that’s the way it’s always been done. A winner says there ought to be a better way.
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It is not only useless, it is harmful, to believe in oneself until one truly knows oneself. And to know oneself means to accept our moments of insanity, of eccentricity, of childishness and blindness.
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A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, his is also one who is permanently disappointed in the future.
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