Good teaching must be slow enough so that it is not confusing, and fast enough so that it is not boring.
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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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.
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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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There are always too many Democratic congressmen, too many Republican congressmen, and never enough U.S. congressmen.
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Almost every man looks more so in a belted trench coat.
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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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There is no such thing as an “atrocity” in warfare that is greater than the atrocity of warfare itself.
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Ignorance per se is not nearly as dangerous as ignorance of ignorance.
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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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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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Usually, if we hate, it is the shadow of the person that we hate, rather than the substance.
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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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Enemies, as well as lovers, come to resemble each other over a period of time.
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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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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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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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