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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. Harris

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.
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Character Refrain Secret Several Tests
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
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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Confidence Relationship Self Esteem
No one should pay attention to a man delivering a lecture or a sermon on his “philosophy of life” until we know exactly how he treats his wife, his children, his neighbors, his friends, his subordinates and his enemies.
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Children Men Philosophy
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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Math Real Technology
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
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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Advice Generally Men Mind
A man will lay down his life for his friend but will not sacrifice his eardrums.
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Down Friend Lay Man Sacrifice
If you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the problem, but the perpetual human predicament is that the answer soon poses its own problems.
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Answers Predicaments Problem
The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
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Education Mirror Purpose Whole Window
We 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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Education Parenting Responsibility
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
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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Art Choices Squares
The truest test of independent judgment is being able to dislike someone who admires us, and to admire someone who dislikes us.
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Dislike Someone Independence Independent
There’s no point in burying a hatchet if you’re going to put up a marker on the site.
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Forgiveness Heartbroken Site
There are always too many Democratic congressmen, too many Republican congressmen, and never enough U.S. congressmen.
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Democracy Republican Voting

We 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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We 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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