Every rule in the book can be broken, except one – be who you are, and become all you were meant to be.
SYDNEY J. HARRISThe greatest educational dogma is also its greatest fallacy: the belief that what must be learned can necessarily be taught.
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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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Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.
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The founder of every creed from Jesus Christ to Karl Marx, would be appalled to return to earth and see what has been made of that creed, not by its enemies, but by its most devoted adherents.
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It’s odd, and a little unsettling, to reflect upon the fact that English is the only major language in which “I” is capitalized; in many other languages “You” is capitalized and the “i” is lower case.” —
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Skepticism is not an end in itself; it is a tool for the discovery of truths.
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The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
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The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
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The best thing you can give children, next to good habits, are good memories.
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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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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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Take away grievances from some people and you remove their reasons for living; most of us are nourished by hope, but a considerable minority get psychic nutrition from their resentments, and would waste away purposelessly without them.
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The public examination of homosexuality in our contemporary life is still so coated with distasteful moral connotations that even a reviewer is bound to wonder uneasily why he was selected to evaluate a book on the subject.
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All significant achievement comes from daring from experiment from the willingness to risk failure.
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The greatest enemy of progress is not stagnation, but false progress.
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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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