We can often endure an extra pound of pain far more easily than we can suffer the withdrawal of an ounce of accustomed pleasure.
SYDNEY J. HARRISThe 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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Why do most Americans look up to education and down upon educated people?
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A man will lay down his life for his friend but will not sacrifice his eardrums.
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Skepticism is not an end in itself; it is a tool for the discovery of truths.
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All significant achievement comes from daring from experiment from the willingness to risk failure.
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The best combination of parents consists of a father who is gentle beneath his firmness, and a mother who is firm beneath her gentleness.
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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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Usually, if we hate, it is the shadow of the person that we hate, rather than the substance.
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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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We truly possess only what we are able to renounce; otherwise, we are simply possessed by our possessions.
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We evaluate others with a Godlike justice, but we want them to evaluate us with a Godlike compassion.
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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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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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The main discomfort in being a middle-of-the-roader is that you get sideswiped by partisans going in both directions.
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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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Good teaching must be slow enough so that it is not confusing, and fast enough so that it is not boring.
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