Agnosticism is a perfectly respectable and tenable philosophical position; it is not dogmatic and makes no pronouncements about the ultimate truths of the universe. It remains open to evidence and persuasion; lacking faith, it nevertheless does not deride faith.
SYDNEY J. HARRISA winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive.
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It is not only useless, it is harmful, to believe in oneself until one truly knows oneself. And to know oneself means to accept our moments of insanity, of eccentricity, of childishness and blindness.
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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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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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People decline invitations when they are “indisposed” physically, and I wish they would do likewise when they feel indisposed emotionally. A person has no more right to attend a party with a head full of venom than with a throat full of virus.
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Any philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs there.
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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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People who think they’re generous to a fault usually think that’s their only fault.
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The main discomfort in being a middle-of-the-roader is that you get sideswiped by partisans going in both directions.
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There is no such thing as an “atrocity” in warfare that is greater than the atrocity of warfare itself.
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Many married couples separate because they quarrel incessantly, but just as many separate because they were never honest enough or courageous enough to quarrel when they should have.
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The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
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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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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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And to assert defensively at the outset that he is happily married, the father of four children and the one-time adornment of his college boxing, track and tennis teams.
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Happiness is a direction, not a place.
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