The best combination of parents consists of a father who is gentle beneath his firmness, and a mother who is firm beneath her gentleness.
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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You may be sure that when a man begins to call himself a realist he is preparing to do something that he is secretly ashamed of doing.
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Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.
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Nobody really knows how smart or talented he is until he finds the incentives to use himself to the fullest. God has given us more than we know what to do with.
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This is a lesson mankind has not yet learned. We identify, and stratify, and treat persons largely on the basis of their accidental (physical) characteristics, which have no deeper meaning.
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Skepticism is not an end in itself; it is a tool for the discovery of truths.
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If you cannot endure to be thought in the wrong, you will begin to do terrible things to make the wrong appear right.
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There are always too many Democratic congressmen, too many Republican congressmen, and never enough U.S. congressmen.
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Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.
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Never let your fears be the boundaries of your dreams. Happiness is a direction, not a place.
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If you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the problem, but the perpetual human predicament is that the answer soon poses its own problems.
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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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Making out an invitation list for a party brings out the worst in everyone. It is then that our most ruthless estimates of the people we know come into play.
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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 greatest educational dogma is also its greatest fallacy: the belief that what must be learned can necessarily be taught.
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Many people know how to work hard; many others know how to play well; but the rarest talent in the world is the ability to introduce elements of playfulness into work, and to put some constructive labor into our leisure.
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