Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves – so how can we know anyone else?
SYDNEY J. HARRISThe loner may be respected, but he is always resented by his colleagues, for he seems to be passing a critical judgment on them, when he may be simply making a limiting statement about himself.
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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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Enemies, as well as lovers, come to resemble each other over a period of time.
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The world has always been betrayed by decent men with bad ideals.
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Elitism is the slur directed at merit by mediocrity.
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Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.
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Nobody really knows how smart or talented he is until he finds the incentives to use himself to the fullest. God has given us more than we know what to do with.
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There are always too many Democratic congressmen, too many Republican congressmen, and never enough U.S. congressmen.
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Good teaching must be slow enough so that it is not confusing, and fast enough so that it is not boring.
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Ignorance per se is not nearly as dangerous as ignorance of ignorance.
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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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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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There’s no point in burying a hatchet if you’re going to put up a marker on the site.
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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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No one should pay attention to a man delivering a lecture or a sermon on his “philosophy of life” until we know exactly how he treats his wife, his children, his neighbors, his friends, his subordinates and his enemies.
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And most of the failures in parent-child relationships, from my observation, begin when the child begins to acquire a mind and a will of its own, to make independent decisions and to question the omnipotence or the wisdom of the parent.
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