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Honesty consists of the unwillingness to lie to others; maturity, which is equally hard to attain, consists of the unwillingness to lie to oneself.

Sydney J. Harris

Honesty consists of the unwillingness to lie to others; maturity, which is equally hard to attain, consists of the unwillingness to lie to oneself.
SYDNEY J. HARRIS

Attain Honesty Lying Maturity Truth
More trouble is caused in this world by indiscreet answers than by indiscreet questions.
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Answers Trouble World
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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Believe Best Love Partner
All significant achievement comes from daring from experiment from the willingness to risk failure.
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Achievement Failure Risk
People decline invitations when they are “indisposed” physically, and I wish they would do likewise when they feel indisposed emotionally. A person has no more right to attend a party with a head full of venom than with a throat full of virus.
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Imposed Party People Physically Wish
Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.
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Brain Knowledge One Small
A loser says that’s the way it’s always been done. A winner says there ought to be a better way.
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Always Done Loser Way
The best thing you can give children, next to good habits, are good memories.
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Children Memories Mom
Skepticism is not an end in itself; it is a tool for the discovery of truths.
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Discovery Tools Truth
Enemies, as well as lovers, come to resemble each other over a period of time.
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Enemy Lovers Time Love
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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College Education Mind
Elitism is the slur directed at merit by mediocrity.
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Acceptance Mediocrity Merit
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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Book Broken Effectiveness
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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Math Real Technology
When we have “second thoughts” about something, our first thoughts don’t seem like thoughts at all – just feelings.
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Feelings Firsts Justice
The art of living consists in knowing which impulses to obey and which must be made to obey.
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Art Knowing Made

Honesty consists of the unwillingness to lie to others; maturity, which is equally hard to attain, consists of the unwillingness to lie to oneself.

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Honesty consists of the unwillingness to lie to others; maturity, which is equally hard to attain, consists of the unwillingness to lie to oneself.

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