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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.

Sydney J. Harris

Agnosticism is a perfectly respectable and tenable philosophical position; it is not dogmatic and makes no pronouncements about the ultimate truths of the universe. It remains open to evidence and persuasion; lacking faith, it nevertheless does not deride faith.
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Hands Philosophical Religious
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
Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
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Ideas Men Thinking
The truest test of independent judgment is being able to dislike someone who admires us, and to admire someone who dislikes us.
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Dislike Someone Independence Independent
The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
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Education Mirror Purpose Whole Window
People who think they’re generous to a fault usually think that’s their only fault.
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Generosity People Thinking
Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, ‘Why not?’ and the other, ‘Why bother?’
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Bother Funny Two Witty
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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Answers Simple Wonder
You may be sure that when a man begins to call himself a realist he is preparing to do something that he is secretly ashamed of doing.
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Cynical May Men
The best thing you can give children, next to good habits, are good memories.
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Children Memories Mom
A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, his is also one who is permanently disappointed in the future.
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Fear Lessons Past
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
The founder of every creed from Jesus Christ to Karl Marx, would be appalled to return to earth and see what has been made of that creed, not by its enemies, but by its most devoted adherents.
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Appalled Christ Enemy Jesus
By the time a man asks you for advice, he has generally made up his mind what he wants to do, and is looking for confirmation rather than counseling.
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Advice Generally Men Mind
Any philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs there.
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Discovery Ethics Philosophy
And most of the failures in parent-child relationships, from my observation, begin when the child begins to acquire a mind and a will of its own, to make independent decisions and to question the omnipotence or the wisdom of the parent.
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Children Independent

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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