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.
SYDNEY J. HARRISIf a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?
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Almost every man looks more so in a belted trench coat.
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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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People who think they’re generous to a fault usually think that’s their only fault.
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Never let your fears be the boundaries of your dreams. Happiness is a direction, not a place.
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The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
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The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one’s mind a pleasant place in which to spend one’s leisure.
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Love makes everything lovely; hate concentrates itself on the object of its hatred.
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More trouble is caused in this world by indiscreet answers than by indiscreet questions.
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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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Enemies, as well as lovers, come to resemble each other over a period of time.
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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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It’s surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely determined by their feelings toward themselves, and if you’re not comfortable within yourself, you can’t be comfortable with others.
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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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Marriages we regard as the happiest are those in which each of the partners believes he or she got the best of it.
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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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