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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.

Sydney J. Harris

Ignorance per se is not nearly as dangerous as ignorance of ignorance.
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Dangerous Ignorance Nearly
Those who imagine that the world is against them have generally conspired to make it true.
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Imagination Imagine World
If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?
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Anger Power Wisdom
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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Appreciation Loss Swing
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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Answers Predicaments Problem
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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Anyone Else Most Stranger
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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Cynical May Men
When I hear somebody sigh, ‘Life is hard,’ I am always tempted to ask, ‘Compared to what?’
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Funny Inspirational Life
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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Attain Honesty Lying Maturity Truth
Being yourself is not remaining what you were, or being satisfied with what you are. It is the point of departure and far from the goal.
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Being Departure Goat Satisfied Yourself
The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
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Education Mirror Purpose Whole Window
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
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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Core Evoke Only Person Resonate
Elitism is the slur directed at merit by mediocrity.
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Acceptance Mediocrity Merit
By the time a man asks you for advice, he has generally made up his mind what he wants to do, and is looking for confirmation rather than counseling.
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Advice Generally Men Mind
We truly possess only what we are able to renounce; otherwise, we are simply possessed by our possessions.
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Able Possession Renounce

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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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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