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Patriotism is proud of a country’s virtues and eager to correct its deficiencies; it also acknowledges the legitimate patriotism of other countries, with their own specific virtues.

Sydney J. Harris

Between the semi-educated, who offer simplistic answers to complex questions, and the overeducated, who offer complicated answers to simple questions, it is a wonder that any questions get satisfactorily answered at all.
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Answers Simple Wonder
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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Chance Telling Truth Wife
Elitism is the slur directed at merit by mediocrity.
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Acceptance Mediocrity Merit
Skepticism is not an end in itself; it is a tool for the discovery of truths.
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Discovery Tools Truth
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 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
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
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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Fear Lessons Past
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
The greatest enemy of progress is not stagnation, but false progress.
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Enemy Progress Stagnation
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
All significant achievement comes from daring from experiment from the willingness to risk failure.
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Achievement Failure Risk
Real loneliness consists not in being alone, but in being with the wrong person, in the suffocating darkness of a room in which no deep communication is possible.
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Communication Loneliness Real
The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
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Education Mirror Purpose Whole Window
There is no such thing as an “atrocity” in warfare that is greater than the atrocity of warfare itself.
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Atrocities Greater Warfare
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

Patriotism is proud of a country’s virtues and eager to correct its deficiencies; it also acknowledges the legitimate patriotism of other countries, with their own specific virtues.

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