Agnosticism is a perfectly respectable and tenable philosophical position; it is not dogmatic and makes no pronouncements about the ultimate truths of the universe. It remains open to evidence and persuasion; lacking faith, it nevertheless does not deride faith.
SYDNEY J. HARRISTime is love, above all else. It is the most precious commodity in the world and should be lavished on those we care most about.
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If you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the problem, but the perpetual human predicament is that the answer soon poses its own problems.
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We may hate a person because he reminds us of someone we feared and disliked when younger; or because we see in him some gross caricature of what we find repugnant in ourself; or because he symbolizes an attitude that seems to threaten us.
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All significant achievement comes from daring from experiment from the willingness to risk failure.
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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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The 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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There is no such thing as an “atrocity” in warfare that is greater than the atrocity of warfare itself.
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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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Elitism is the slur directed at merit by mediocrity.
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Love makes everything lovely; hate concentrates itself on the object of its hatred.
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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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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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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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There’s no point in burying a hatchet if you’re going to put up a marker on the site.
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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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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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