We can often endure an extra pound of pain far more easily than we can suffer the withdrawal of an ounce of accustomed pleasure.
SYDNEY J. HARRISA 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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The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
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A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, his is also one who is permanently disappointed in the future.
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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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We evaluate others with a Godlike justice, but we want them to evaluate us with a Godlike compassion.
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Nothing is as easy to make as a promise this winter to do something next summer; this is how commencement speakers are caught.
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If you cannot endure to be thought in the wrong, you will begin to do terrible things to make the wrong appear right.
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Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.
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A ‘penchant for telling the truth’ can cripple a candidates chances faster than being caught in flagrante delicto with the governor’s wife.
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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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The greatest enemy of progress is not stagnation, but false progress.
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As the horsepower in modern automobiles steadily rises, the congestion of traffic steadily lowers the average possible speed of your car. This is known as Progress.
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This is a lesson mankind has not yet learned. We identify, and stratify, and treat persons largely on the basis of their accidental (physical) characteristics, which have no deeper meaning.
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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.
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Skepticism is not an end in itself; it is a tool for the discovery of truths.
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Any philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs there.
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