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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.

Sydney J. Harris

Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.
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Brain Knowledge One Small
The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.
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Math Real Technology
There is no such thing as an “atrocity” in warfare that is greater than the atrocity of warfare itself.
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Atrocities Greater Warfare
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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Discomfort Middle Partisan
And to assert defensively at the outset that he is happily married, the father of four children and the one-time adornment of his college boxing, track and tennis teams.
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Assert Children Defensively Terms Track
A ‘penchant for telling the truth’ can cripple a candidates chances faster than being caught in flagrante delicto with the governor’s wife.
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Chance Telling Truth Wife
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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Core Evoke Only Person Resonate
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
Time is love, above all else. It is the most precious commodity in the world and should be lavished on those we care most about.
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Care Commodity Precious Time World
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
Skepticism is not an end in itself; it is a tool for the discovery of truths.
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Discovery Tools Truth
Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.
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Acceptance Assuming Tolerance
Why do most Americans look up to education and down upon educated people?
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Educated Looks People
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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Dislike Someone Independence Independent
Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
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Ideas Men Thinking
An idealist believes the short run doesn’t count. A cynic believes the long run doesn’t matter.
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Inspirational Love Running

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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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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