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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.

Sydney J. Harris

A university is not, primarily, a place in which to learn how to make a living; it is a place in which to learn how to be more fully a human being, how to draw upon one’s resources, how to discipline the mind and expand the imagination; how to make some sense out of the big world we will shortly be thrown into.
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Discipline Learning Life
Skepticism is not an end in itself; it is a tool for the discovery of truths.
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Discovery Tools Truth
The greatest educational dogma is also its greatest fallacy: the belief that what must be learned can necessarily be taught.
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Creative Educational Taught
When we have “second thoughts” about something, our first thoughts don’t seem like thoughts at all – just feelings.
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Feelings Firsts Justice
The best thing you can give children, next to good habits, are good memories.
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Children Memories Mom
No one should pay attention to a man delivering a lecture or a sermon on his “philosophy of life” until we know exactly how he treats his wife, his children, his neighbors, his friends, his subordinates and his enemies.
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Children Men Philosophy
Elitism is the slur directed at merit by mediocrity.
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Acceptance Mediocrity Merit
We may hate a person because he reminds us of someone we feared and disliked when younger; or because we see in him some gross caricature of what we find repugnant in ourself; or because he symbolizes an attitude that seems to threaten us.
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Fear Ourselves Person Someone Younger
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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Always Done Loser Way
Many people feel “guilty” about things they shouldn’t feel guilty about, in order to shut out feelings of guilt about things they should feel guilty about.
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Feelings Order People
Time is love, above all else. It is the most precious commodity in the world and should be lavished on those we care most about.
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Care Commodity Precious Time World
Atheism, on the other hand, is as unyielding and dogmatic about religious belief as true believers are about heathens. It tries to use reason to demolish a structure that is not built upon reason.
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Belief Dogmatic Reason Structure
Any philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs there.
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Discovery Ethics Philosophy
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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Characteristics Lessons Treats
An idealist believes the short run doesn’t count. A cynic believes the long run doesn’t matter.
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Inspirational Love Running
Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
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Ideas Men Thinking

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