The main discomfort in being a middle-of-the-roader is that you get sideswiped by partisans going in both directions.
SYDNEY J. HARRISA 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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Why do most Americans look up to education and down upon educated people?
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And nobody is more aware of this difference (although unconsciously) than a child. Only an authentic person can evoke a good response in the core of the other person; only person is resonant to person.
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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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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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The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
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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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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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People who think they’re generous to a fault usually think that’s their only fault.
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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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Elitism is the slur directed at merit by mediocrity.
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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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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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It’s odd, and a little unsettling, to reflect upon the fact that English is the only major language in which “I” is capitalized; in many other languages “You” is capitalized and the “i” is lower case.” —
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Skepticism is not an end in itself; it is a tool for the discovery of truths.
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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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