The severest test of character is not so much the ability to keep a secret as it is, when the secret is finally out, to refrain from disclosing that you knew it all along.
SYDNEY J. HARRISWe have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we have stopped saying ‘It got lost,’ and say, ‘I lost it.’
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More trouble is caused in this world by indiscreet answers than by indiscreet questions.
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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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The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
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Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
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Agnosticism is a perfectly respectable and tenable philosophical position; it is not dogmatic and makes no pronouncements about the ultimate truths of the universe. It remains open to evidence and persuasion; lacking faith, it nevertheless does not deride faith.
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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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Never let your fears be the boundaries of your dreams. Happiness is a direction, not a place.
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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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Every morning I take out my bankbook, stare at it, shudder – and turn quickly to my typewriter.
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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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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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All significant achievement comes from daring from experiment from the willingness to risk failure.
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Most 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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If you cannot endure to be thought in the wrong, you will begin to do terrible things to make the wrong appear right.
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