A man will lay down his life for his friend but will not sacrifice his eardrums.
SYDNEY J. HARRISAs 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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Elitism is the slur directed at merit by mediocrity.
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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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This is a lesson mankind has not yet learned. We identify, and stratify, and treat persons largely on the basis of their accidental (physical) characteristics, which have no deeper meaning.
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A loser says that’s the way it’s always been done. A winner says there ought to be a better way.
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Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.
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There is no such thing as an “atrocity” in warfare that is greater than the atrocity of warfare itself.
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A ‘penchant for telling the truth’ can cripple a candidates chances faster than being caught in flagrante delicto with the governor’s wife.
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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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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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Many people know how to work hard; many others know how to play well; but the rarest talent in the world is the ability to introduce elements of playfulness into work, and to put some constructive labor into our leisure.
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Honesty consists of the unwillingness to lie to others; maturity, which is equally hard to attain, consists of the unwillingness to lie to oneself.
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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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A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive.
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The greatest enemy of progress is not stagnation, but false progress.
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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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