Enemies, as well as lovers, come to resemble each other over a period of time.
SYDNEY J. HARRISAnd 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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A university is not, primarily, a place in which to learn how to make a living; it is a place in which to learn how to be more fully a human being, how to draw upon one’s resources, how to discipline the mind and expand the imagination; how to make some sense out of the big world we will shortly be thrown into.
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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 morning I take out my bankbook, stare at it, shudder – and turn quickly to my typewriter.
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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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Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, ‘Why not?’ and the other, ‘Why bother?’
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Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.
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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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The founder of every creed from Jesus Christ to Karl Marx, would be appalled to return to earth and see what has been made of that creed, not by its enemies, but by its most devoted adherents.
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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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Why do most Americans look up to education and down upon educated people?
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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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There’s no point in burying a hatchet if you’re going to put up a marker on the site.
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Real loneliness consists not in being alone, but in being with the wrong person, in the suffocating darkness of a room in which no deep communication is possible.
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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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Men make counterfeit money; in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men.
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