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.
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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Many people feel “guilty” about things they shouldn’t feel guilty about, in order to shut out feelings of guilt about things they should feel guilty about.
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No one should pay attention to a man delivering a lecture or a sermon on his “philosophy of life” until we know exactly how he treats his wife, his children, his neighbors, his friends, his subordinates and his enemies.
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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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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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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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Those who imagine that the world is against them have generally conspired to make it true.
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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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Love makes everything lovely; hate concentrates itself on the object of its hatred.
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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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Making out an invitation list for a party brings out the worst in everyone. It is then that our most ruthless estimates of the people we know come into play.
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People who think they’re generous to a fault usually think that’s their only fault.
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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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Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.
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Men make counterfeit money; in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men.
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Man’s unique agony as a species consists in his perpetual conflict between the desire to stand out and the need to blend in.
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