The most important thing in an argument, next to being right, is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent, so that he can gracefully swing over to your side without too much apparent loss of face.
SYDNEY J. HARRISWhy do most Americans look up to education and down upon educated people?
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People decline invitations when they are “indisposed” physically, and I wish they would do likewise when they feel indisposed emotionally. A person has no more right to attend a party with a head full of venom than with a throat full of virus.
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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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You may be sure that when a man begins to call himself a realist he is preparing to do something that he is secretly ashamed of doing.
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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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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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More trouble is caused in this world by indiscreet answers than by indiscreet questions.
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Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
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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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Every morning I take out my bankbook, stare at it, shudder – and turn quickly to my typewriter.
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Happiness is a direction, not a place.
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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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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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Any philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs there.
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Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.
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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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