The best thing you can give children, next to good habits, are good memories.
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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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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What is much harder to handle is the sense that you have to live up to the mark someone else has set for you. The grades become too important, the competition too frantic, the fear of disappointing those who believe in you turns into an overwhelming nightmare.
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More trouble is caused in this world by indiscreet answers than by indiscreet questions.
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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 evaluate others with a Godlike justice, but we want them to evaluate us with a Godlike compassion.
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Ignorance per se is not nearly as dangerous as ignorance of ignorance.
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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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Nobody really knows how smart or talented he is until he finds the incentives to use himself to the fullest. God has given us more than we know what to do with.
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Almost every man looks more so in a belted trench coat.
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There is no such thing as an “atrocity” in warfare that is greater than the atrocity of warfare itself.
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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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The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
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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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Elitism is the slur directed at merit by mediocrity.
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Never let your fears be the boundaries of your dreams. Happiness is a direction, not a place.
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