All significant achievement comes from daring from experiment from the willingness to risk failure.
SYDNEY J. HARRISThe world has always been betrayed by decent men with bad ideals.
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More trouble is caused in this world by indiscreet answers than by indiscreet questions.
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Many people feel “guilty” about things they shouldn’t feel guilty about, in order to shut out feelings of guilt about things they should feel guilty about.
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And nobody is more aware of this difference (although unconsciously) than a child. Only an authentic person can evoke a good response in the core of the other person; only person is resonant to person.
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Why do most Americans look up to education and down upon educated people?
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The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
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Skepticism is not an end in itself; it is a tool for the discovery of truths.
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Nothing is as easy to make as a promise this winter to do something next summer; this is how commencement speakers are caught.
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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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The greatest enemy of progress is not stagnation, but false progress.
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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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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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The public examination of homosexuality in our contemporary life is still so coated with distasteful moral connotations that even a reviewer is bound to wonder uneasily why he was selected to evaluate a book on the subject.
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Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves – so how can we know anyone else?
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Atheism, on the other hand, is as unyielding and dogmatic about religious belief as true believers are about heathens. It tries to use reason to demolish a structure that is not built upon reason.
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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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