We truly possess only what we are able to renounce; otherwise, we are simply possessed by our possessions.
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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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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Skepticism is not an end in itself; it is a tool for the discovery of truths.
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Men make counterfeit money; in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men.
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The most important thing in an argument, next to being right, is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent, so that he can gracefully swing over to your side without too much apparent loss of face.
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The art of living consists in knowing which impulses to obey and which must be made to obey.
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When we inform, we lead from strength; when we communicate, we lead from weakness-and it is precisely this confession of mortality that engages the ears, heads and hearts of those we want to enlist as allies in a common cause.
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It’s odd, and a little unsettling, to reflect upon the fact that English is the only major language in which “I” is capitalized; in many other languages “You” is capitalized and the “i” is lower case.” —
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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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The main discomfort in being a middle-of-the-roader is that you get sideswiped by partisans going in both directions.
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Many married couples separate because they quarrel incessantly, but just as many separate because they were never honest enough or courageous enough to quarrel when they should have.
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Any philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs there.
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Enemies, as well as lovers, come to resemble each other over a period of time.
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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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There’s no point in burying a hatchet if you’re going to put up a marker on the site.
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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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