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Sydney J. Harris

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
Never let your fears be the boundaries of your dreams. Happiness is a direction, not a place.
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Boundaries Dream Dreams Follow
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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Confusing Teacher Teaching
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
A man will lay down his life for his friend but will not sacrifice his eardrums.
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Down Friend Lay Man Sacrifice
Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time; what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better.
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Change Funny Love
When I hear somebody sigh, ‘Life is hard,’ I am always tempted to ask, ‘Compared to what?’
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Funny Inspirational Life
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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Bother Funny Two Witty
The greatest enemy of progress is not stagnation, but false progress.
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Enemy Progress Stagnation
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
The best thing you can give children, next to good habits, are good memories.
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Children Memories Mom
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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Answers Predicaments Problem
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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Hands Philosophical Religious
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
Enemies, as well as lovers, come to resemble each other over a period of time.
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Enemy Lovers Time Love
People who think they’re generous to a fault usually think that’s their only fault.
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Generosity People Thinking

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