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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.

Sydney J. Harris

The best thing you can give children, next to good habits, are good memories.
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Children Memories Mom
We may hate a person because he reminds us of someone we feared and disliked when younger; or because we see in him some gross caricature of what we find repugnant in ourself; or because he symbolizes an attitude that seems to threaten us.
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Fear Ourselves Person Someone Younger
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
Why do most Americans look up to education and down upon educated people?
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Educated Looks People
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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Country Humility Legitimate Pride
The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one’s mind a pleasant place in which to spend one’s leisure.
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College Education Mind
Skepticism is not an end in itself; it is a tool for the discovery of truths.
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Discovery Tools Truth
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
We truly possess only what we are able to renounce; otherwise, we are simply possessed by our possessions.
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Able Possession Renounce
If you cannot endure to be thought in the wrong, you will begin to do terrible things to make the wrong appear right.
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Acceptance Endure Terrible
What is much harder to handle is the sense that you have to live up to the mark someone else has set for you. The grades become too important, the competition too frantic, the fear of disappointing those who believe in you turns into an overwhelming nightmare.
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Believe Boys Parent
The art of living consists in knowing which impulses to obey and which must be made to obey.
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Art Knowing Made
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
All significant achievement comes from daring from experiment from the willingness to risk failure.
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Achievement Failure Risk
Honesty consists of the unwillingness to lie to others; maturity, which is equally hard to attain, consists of the unwillingness to lie to oneself.
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Attain Honesty Lying Maturity Truth

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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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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