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A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive.

Sydney J. Harris

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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Characteristics Lessons Treats
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
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
Men make counterfeit money; in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men.
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Cases Men Money
Nobody really knows how smart or talented he is until he finds the incentives to use himself to the fullest. God has given us more than we know what to do with.
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Commodity Nobody Precious Really Talented
People who think they’re generous to a fault usually think that’s their only fault.
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Generosity People Thinking
Why do most Americans look up to education and down upon educated people?
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Educated Looks People
Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.
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Brain Knowledge One Small
We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we have stopped saying ‘It got lost,’ and say, ‘I lost it.’
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Education Parenting Responsibility
Many married couples separate because they quarrel incessantly, but just as many separate because they were never honest enough or courageous enough to quarrel when they should have.
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Couple Couples Divorce Quarrel Separate
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 whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
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Education Mirror Purpose Whole Window
When we inform, we lead from strength; when we communicate, we lead from weakness-and it is precisely this confession of mortality that engages the ears, heads and hearts of those we want to enlist as allies in a common cause.
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Allies Heart Weakness
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
Any philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs there.
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Discovery Ethics Philosophy
Never let your fears be the boundaries of your dreams. Happiness is a direction, not a place.
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Boundaries Dream Dreams Follow

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