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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.

Sydney J. Harris

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
Real loneliness consists not in being alone, but in being with the wrong person, in the suffocating darkness of a room in which no deep communication is possible.
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Communication Loneliness Real
There is no such thing as an “atrocity” in warfare that is greater than the atrocity of warfare itself.
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Atrocities Greater Warfare
Atheism, on the other hand, is as unyielding and dogmatic about religious belief as true believers are about heathens. It tries to use reason to demolish a structure that is not built upon reason.
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Belief Dogmatic Reason Structure
When we inform, we lead from strength; when we communicate, we lead from weakness-and it is precisely this confession of mortality that engages the ears, heads and hearts of those we want to enlist as allies in a common cause.
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Allies Heart Weakness
It is not only useless, it is harmful, to believe in oneself until one truly knows oneself. And to know oneself means to accept our moments of insanity, of eccentricity, of childishness and blindness.
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Believe Insanity Mean
Men make counterfeit money; in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men.
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Cases Men Money
Ignorance per se is not nearly as dangerous as ignorance of ignorance.
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Dangerous Ignorance Nearly
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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Minorities People Psychics
Elitism is the slur directed at merit by mediocrity.
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Acceptance Mediocrity Merit
More trouble is caused in this world by indiscreet answers than by indiscreet questions.
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Answers Trouble World
Almost every man looks more so in a belted trench coat.
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Coats Looks Men
We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we have stopped saying ‘It got lost,’ and say, ‘I lost it.’
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Education Parenting Responsibility
Happiness is a direction, not a place.
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Being Direction Happiness Happy Place
Skepticism is not an end in itself; it is a tool for the discovery of truths.
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Discovery Tools Truth
The greatest enemy of progress is not stagnation, but false progress.
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Enemy Progress Stagnation

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