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.
SYDNEY J. HARRISA 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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The greatest educational dogma is also its greatest fallacy: the belief that what must be learned can necessarily be taught.
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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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Every morning I take out my bankbook, stare at it, shudder – and turn quickly to my typewriter.
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Why do most Americans look up to education and down upon educated people?
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If you cannot endure to be thought in the wrong, you will begin to do terrible things to make the wrong appear right.
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Skepticism is not an end in itself; it is a tool for the discovery of truths.
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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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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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Take away grievances from some people and you remove their reasons for living; most of us are nourished by hope, but a considerable minority get psychic nutrition from their resentments, and would waste away purposelessly without them.
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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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By the time a man asks you for advice, he has generally made up his mind what he wants to do, and is looking for confirmation rather than counseling.
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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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Atheism, on the other hand, is as unyielding and dogmatic about religious belief as true believers are about heathens. It tries to use reason to demolish a structure that is not built upon reason.
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Love makes everything lovely; hate concentrates itself on the object of its hatred.
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