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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.

Sydney J. Harris

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
All significant achievement comes from daring from experiment from the willingness to risk failure.
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Achievement Failure Risk
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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Consider Experts Growth
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
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
What 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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Believe Boys Parent
Good teaching must be slow enough so that it is not confusing, and fast enough so that it is not boring.
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Confusing Teacher Teaching
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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Believe Insanity Mean
Enemies, as well as lovers, come to resemble each other over a period of time.
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Enemy Lovers Time Love
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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Children Coated Examination Father Review Team
Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.
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Acceptance Assuming Tolerance
Usually, if we hate, it is the shadow of the person that we hate, rather than the substance.
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Attitude Hate Shadow
When I hear somebody sigh, ‘Life is hard,’ I am always tempted to ask, ‘Compared to what?’
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Funny Inspirational Life
Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time; what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better.
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Change Funny Love
There are always too many Democratic congressmen, too many Republican congressmen, and never enough U.S. congressmen.
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Democracy Republican Voting
A loser says that’s the way it’s always been done. A winner says there ought to be a better way.
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Always Done Loser Way

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