The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
SYDNEY J. HARRISThe severest test of character is not so much the ability to keep a secret as it is, when the secret is finally out, to refrain from disclosing that you knew it all along.
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Honesty consists of the unwillingness to lie to others; maturity, which is equally hard to attain, consists of the unwillingness to lie to oneself.
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The pessimist sees only the tunnel; the optimist sees the light at the end of the tunnel; the realist sees the tunnel and the light – and the next tunnel.
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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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Elitism is the slur directed at merit by mediocrity.
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The art of living consists in knowing which impulses to obey and which must be made to obey.
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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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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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Any philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs there.
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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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Why do most Americans look up to education and down upon educated people?
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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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The world has always been betrayed by decent men with bad ideals.
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The best thing you can give children, next to good habits, are good memories.
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We can often endure an extra pound of pain far more easily than we can suffer the withdrawal of an ounce of accustomed pleasure.
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We 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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