All significant achievement comes from daring from experiment from the willingness to risk failure.
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 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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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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Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves – so how can we know anyone else?
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A man will lay down his life for his friend but will not sacrifice his eardrums.
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The best thing you can give children, next to good habits, are good memories.
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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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Enemies, as well as lovers, come to resemble each other over a period of time.
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When we have “second thoughts” about something, our first thoughts don’t seem like thoughts at all – just feelings.
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Life is, if anything, the art of combination. Of discrimination. Of freely picking one’s own personal pattern out of a hundred choices. Not letting it be picked for you-either by the Establishment, or by the Rebels. Conformity of Hip is no better than Conformity of Square.
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We can often endure an extra pound of pain far more easily than we can suffer the withdrawal of an ounce of accustomed pleasure.
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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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Happiness is a direction, not a place.
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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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Love makes everything lovely; hate concentrates itself on the object of its hatred.
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Many people know how to work hard; many others know how to play well; but the rarest talent in the world is the ability to introduce elements of playfulness into work, and to put some constructive labor into our leisure.
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