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Being yourself is not remaining what you were, or being satisfied with what you are. It is the point of departure and far from the goal.

Sydney J. Harris

What is much harder to handle is the sense that you have to live up to the mark someone else has set for you. The grades become too important, the competition too frantic, the fear of disappointing those who believe in you turns into an overwhelming nightmare.
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Believe Boys Parent
The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one’s mind a pleasant place in which to spend one’s leisure.
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College Education Mind
Skepticism is not an end in itself; it is a tool for the discovery of truths.
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Discovery Tools Truth
More trouble is caused in this world by indiscreet answers than by indiscreet questions.
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Answers Trouble World
Enemies, as well as lovers, come to resemble each other over a period of time.
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Enemy Lovers Time Love
Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time; what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better.
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Change Funny Love
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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Always Done Loser Way
If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?
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Anger Power Wisdom
Those who imagine that the world is against them have generally conspired to make it true.
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Imagination Imagine World
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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Father Mother Parent
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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Average Car Progress
The founder of every creed from Jesus Christ to Karl Marx, would be appalled to return to earth and see what has been made of that creed, not by its enemies, but by its most devoted adherents.
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Appalled Christ Enemy Jesus
The pessimist sees only the tunnel; the optimist sees the light at the end of the tunnel; the realist sees the tunnel and the light – and the next tunnel.
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Light Next Optimist Tunnels
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
The world has always been betrayed by decent men with bad ideals.
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Betrayed Men World
We may hate a person because he reminds us of someone we feared and disliked when younger; or because we see in him some gross caricature of what we find repugnant in ourself; or because he symbolizes an attitude that seems to threaten us.
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Fear Ourselves Person Someone Younger

Being yourself is not remaining what you were, or being satisfied with what you are. It is the point of departure and far from the goal.

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