The severest test of character is not so much the ability to keep a secret as it is, when the secret is finally out, to refrain from disclosing that you knew it all along.
SYDNEY J. HARRISThe most important thing in an argument, next to being right, is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent, so that he can gracefully swing over to your side without too much apparent loss of face.
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When I hear somebody sigh, ‘Life is hard,’ I am always tempted to ask, ‘Compared to what?’
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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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A man will lay down his life for his friend but will not sacrifice his eardrums.
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The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
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Never let your fears be the boundaries of your dreams. Happiness is a direction, not a place.
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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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We truly possess only what we are able to renounce; otherwise, we are simply possessed by our possessions.
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Enemies, as well as lovers, come to resemble each other over a period of time.
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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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Those who imagine that the world is against them have generally conspired to make it true.
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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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The world has always been betrayed by decent men with bad ideals.
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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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Every rule in the book can be broken, except one – be who you are, and become all you were meant to be.
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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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