Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
SYDNEY J. HARRISEvery rule in the book can be broken, except one – be who you are, and become all you were meant to be.
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If you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the problem, but the perpetual human predicament is that the answer soon poses its own problems.
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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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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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Elitism is the slur directed at merit by mediocrity.
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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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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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It’s odd, and a little unsettling, to reflect upon the fact that English is the only major language in which “I” is capitalized; in many other languages “You” is capitalized and the “i” is lower case.” —
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There’s no point in burying a hatchet if you’re going to put up a marker on the site.
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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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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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Every rule in the book can be broken, except one – be who you are, and become all you were meant to be.
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Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.
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The public examination of homosexuality in our contemporary life is still so coated with distasteful moral connotations that even a reviewer is bound to wonder uneasily why he was selected to evaluate a book on the subject.
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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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More trouble is caused in this world by indiscreet answers than by indiscreet questions.
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