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The world has always been betrayed by decent men with bad ideals.

Sydney J. Harris

All significant achievement comes from daring from experiment from the willingness to risk failure.
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Achievement Failure Risk
More trouble is caused in this world by indiscreet answers than by indiscreet questions.
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Answers Trouble World
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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Feelings Order People
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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Core Evoke Only Person Resonate
Why do most Americans look up to education and down upon educated people?
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Educated Looks People
The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
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Education Mirror Purpose Whole Window
Skepticism is not an end in itself; it is a tool for the discovery of truths.
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Discovery Tools Truth
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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Keeping Promises Summer Winter
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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Consider Experts Growth
The greatest enemy of progress is not stagnation, but false progress.
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Enemy Progress Stagnation
If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?
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Anger Power Wisdom
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 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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Children Coated Examination Father Review Team
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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Anyone Else Most Stranger
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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Belief Dogmatic Reason Structure
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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Appreciation Loss Swing

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