As the horsepower in modern automobiles steadily rises, the congestion of traffic steadily lowers the average possible speed of your car. This is known as Progress.
SYDNEY J. HARRISIntolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.
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Elitism is the slur directed at merit by mediocrity.
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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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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.
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The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
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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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All significant achievement comes from daring from experiment from the willingness to risk failure.
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The main discomfort in being a middle-of-the-roader is that you get sideswiped by partisans going in both directions.
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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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A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive.
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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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Any philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs there.
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The greatest enemy of progress is not stagnation, but false progress.
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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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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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Between the semi-educated, who offer simplistic answers to complex questions, and the overeducated, who offer complicated answers to simple questions, it is a wonder that any questions get satisfactorily answered at all.
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