Why do most Americans look up to education and down upon educated people?
SYDNEY J. HARRISWhat is much harder to handle is the sense that you have to live up to the mark someone else has set for you. The grades become too important, the competition too frantic, the fear of disappointing those who believe in you turns into an overwhelming nightmare.
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We truly possess only what we are able to renounce; otherwise, we are simply possessed by our possessions.
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Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, ‘Why not?’ and the other, ‘Why bother?’
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All significant achievement comes from daring from experiment from the willingness to risk failure.
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Love makes everything lovely; hate concentrates itself on the object of its hatred.
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Usually, if we hate, it is the shadow of the person that we hate, rather than the substance.
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The loner may be respected, but he is always resented by his colleagues, for he seems to be passing a critical judgment on them, when he may be simply making a limiting statement about himself.
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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 art of living consists in knowing which impulses to obey and which must be made to obey.
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Every morning I take out my bankbook, stare at it, shudder – and turn quickly to my typewriter.
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The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
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A ‘penchant for telling the truth’ can cripple a candidates chances faster than being caught in flagrante delicto with the governor’s wife.
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The pessimist sees only the tunnel; the optimist sees the light at the end of the tunnel; the realist sees the tunnel and the light – and the next tunnel.
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Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
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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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A winner knows how much he still has to learn, even when he is considered an expert by others; a loser wants to be considered an expert by others before he has learned enough to know how little he knows.
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