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Enemies, as well as lovers, come to resemble each other over a period of time.

Sydney J. Harris

Agnosticism 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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Hands Philosophical Religious
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
The world has always been betrayed by decent men with bad ideals.
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Betrayed Men World
Many married couples separate because they quarrel incessantly, but just as many separate because they were never honest enough or courageous enough to quarrel when they should have.
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Couple Couples Divorce Quarrel Separate
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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Commodity Nobody Precious Really Talented
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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Discipline Learning Life
The greatest enemy of progress is not stagnation, but false progress.
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Enemy Progress Stagnation
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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Being Departure Goat Satisfied Yourself
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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Believe Best Love Partner
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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Father Mother Parent
The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one’s mind a pleasant place in which to spend one’s leisure.
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College Education Mind
Almost every man looks more so in a belted trench coat.
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Coats Looks Men
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
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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Confusing Teacher Teaching
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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Light Next Optimist Tunnels
Every morning I take out my bankbook, stare at it, shudder – and turn quickly to my typewriter.
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Morning Staring Typewriters

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