A man will lay down his life for his friend but will not sacrifice his eardrums.
SYDNEY J. HARRISMost of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves – so how can we know anyone else?
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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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There are always too many Democratic congressmen, too many Republican congressmen, and never enough U.S. congressmen.
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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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Enemies, as well as lovers, come to resemble each other over a period of time.
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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.
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People who think they’re generous to a fault usually think that’s their only fault.
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Men make counterfeit money; in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men.
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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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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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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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Ignorance per se is not nearly as dangerous as ignorance of ignorance.
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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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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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Life is, if anything, the art of combination. Of discrimination. Of freely picking one’s own personal pattern out of a hundred choices. Not letting it be picked for you-either by the Establishment, or by the Rebels. Conformity of Hip is no better than Conformity of Square.
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The best combination of parents consists of a father who is gentle beneath his firmness, and a mother who is firm beneath her gentleness.
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Elitism is the slur directed at merit by mediocrity.
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The art of living consists in knowing which impulses to obey and which must be made to obey.
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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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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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We evaluate others with a Godlike justice, but we want them to evaluate us with a Godlike compassion.
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All significant achievement comes from daring from experiment from the willingness to risk failure.
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Patriotism is proud of a country’s virtues and eager to correct its deficiencies; it also acknowledges the legitimate patriotism of other countries, with their own specific virtues.
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Why do most Americans look up to education and down upon educated people?
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There’s no point in burying a hatchet if you’re going to put up a marker on the site.
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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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We can often endure an extra pound of pain far more easily than we can suffer the withdrawal of an ounce of accustomed pleasure.
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