There’s no point in burying a hatchet if you’re going to put up a marker on the site.
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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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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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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Patriotism is proud of a country’s virtues and eager to correct its deficiencies; it also acknowledges the legitimate patriotism of other countries, with their own specific virtues.
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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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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 world has always been betrayed by decent men with bad ideals.
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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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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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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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There is no such thing as an “atrocity” in warfare that is greater than the atrocity of warfare itself.
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The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
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The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
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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 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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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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