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.
SYDNEY J. HARRISA 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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Almost every man looks more so in a belted trench coat.
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The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
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Every morning I take out my bankbook, stare at it, shudder – and turn quickly to my typewriter.
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We truly possess only what we are able to renounce; otherwise, we are simply possessed by our possessions.
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The greatest educational dogma is also its greatest fallacy: the belief that what must be learned can necessarily be taught.
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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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People who think they’re generous to a fault usually think that’s their only fault.
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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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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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Being yourself is not remaining what you were, or being satisfied with what you are. It is the point of departure and far from the goal.
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People decline invitations when they are “indisposed” physically, and I wish they would do likewise when they feel indisposed emotionally. A person has no more right to attend a party with a head full of venom than with a throat full of virus.
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There are always too many Democratic congressmen, too many Republican congressmen, and never enough U.S. congressmen.
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Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
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Making out an invitation list for a party brings out the worst in everyone. It is then that our most ruthless estimates of the people we know come into play.
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The best thing you can give children, next to good habits, are good memories.
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