We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we have stopped saying ‘It got lost,’ and say, ‘I lost it.’
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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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 real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.
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Men make counterfeit money; in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men.
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Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
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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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As the horsepower in modern automobiles steadily rises, the congestion of traffic steadily lowers the average possible speed of your car. This is known as Progress.
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Time is love, above all else. It is the most precious commodity in the world and should be lavished on those we care most about.
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A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive.
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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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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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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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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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Enemies, as well as lovers, come to resemble each other over a period of time.
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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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Never let your fears be the boundaries of your dreams. Happiness is a direction, not a place.
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