The best thing you can give children, next to good habits, are good memories.
SYDNEY J. HARRISWe have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we have stopped saying ‘It got lost,’ and say, ‘I lost it.’
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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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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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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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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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People who think they’re generous to a fault usually think that’s their only fault.
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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 loser says that’s the way it’s always been done. A winner says there ought to be a better way.
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A man will lay down his life for his friend but will not sacrifice his eardrums.
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Any philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs there.
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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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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.
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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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A 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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Elitism is the slur directed at merit by mediocrity.
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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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