Nothing is as easy to make as a promise this winter to do something next summer; this is how commencement speakers are caught.
SYDNEY J. HARRISAgnosticism 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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People who think they’re generous to a fault usually think that’s their only fault.
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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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Never let your fears be the boundaries of your dreams. Happiness is a direction, not a place.
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The greatest educational dogma is also its greatest fallacy: the belief that what must be learned can necessarily be taught.
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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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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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The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
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There’s no point in burying a hatchet if you’re going to put up a marker on the site.
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Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, ‘Why not?’ and the other, ‘Why bother?’
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A university is not, primarily, a place in which to learn how to make a living; it is a place in which to learn how to be more fully a human being, how to draw upon one’s resources, how to discipline the mind and expand the imagination; how to make some sense out of the big world we will shortly be thrown into.
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Skepticism is not an end in itself; it is a tool for the discovery of truths.
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Almost every man looks more so in a belted trench coat.
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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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Every rule in the book can be broken, except one – be who you are, and become all you were meant to be.
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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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A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive.
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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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And to assert defensively at the outset that he is happily married, the father of four children and the one-time adornment of his college boxing, track and tennis teams.
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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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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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Ignorance per se is not nearly as dangerous as ignorance of ignorance.
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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.
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Take away grievances from some people and you remove their reasons for living; most of us are nourished by hope, but a considerable minority get psychic nutrition from their resentments, and would waste away purposelessly without them.
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The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
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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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The main discomfort in being a middle-of-the-roader is that you get sideswiped by partisans going in both directions.
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