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.
SYDNEY J. HARRISThe world has always been betrayed by decent men with bad ideals.
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The pessimist sees only the tunnel; the optimist sees the light at the end of the tunnel; the realist sees the tunnel and the light – and the next tunnel.
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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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The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
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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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Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.
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Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.
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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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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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Being yourself is not remaining what you were, or being satisfied with what you are. It is the point of departure and far from the goal.
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A winner knows how much he still has to learn, even when he is considered an expert by others; a loser wants to be considered an expert by others before he has learned enough to know how little he knows.
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Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time; what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better.
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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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Take away grievances from some people and you remove their reasons for living; most of us are nourished by hope, but a considerable minority get psychic nutrition from their resentments, and would waste away purposelessly without them.
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If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?
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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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