All significant achievement comes from daring from experiment from the willingness to risk failure.
SYDNEY J. HARRISAs the horsepower in modern automobiles steadily rises, the congestion of traffic steadily lowers the average possible speed of your car. This is known as Progress.
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The greatest enemy of progress is not stagnation, but false progress.
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If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?
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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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Skepticism is not an end in itself; it is a tool for the discovery of truths.
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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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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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Between the semi-educated, who offer simplistic answers to complex questions, and the overeducated, who offer complicated answers to simple questions, it is a wonder that any questions get satisfactorily answered at all.
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Happiness is a direction, not a place.
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Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves – so how can we know anyone else?
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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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Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.
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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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Many people feel “guilty” about things they shouldn’t feel guilty about, in order to shut out feelings of guilt about things they should feel guilty about.
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When we have “second thoughts” about something, our first thoughts don’t seem like thoughts at all – just feelings.
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