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Those who imagine that the world is against them have generally conspired to make it true.

Sydney J. Harris

Almost every man looks more so in a belted trench coat.
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Coats Looks Men
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
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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Anyone Else Most Stranger
Why do most Americans look up to education and down upon educated people?
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Educated Looks People
Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.
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Brain Knowledge One Small
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
The public examination of homosexuality in our contemporary life is still so coated with distasteful moral connotations that even a reviewer is bound to wonder uneasily why he was selected to evaluate a book on the subject.
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Children Coated Examination Father Review Team
Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
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Ideas Men Thinking
The greatest educational dogma is also its greatest fallacy: the belief that what must be learned can necessarily be taught.
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Creative Educational Taught
More trouble is caused in this world by indiscreet answers than by indiscreet questions.
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Answers Trouble World
The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one’s mind a pleasant place in which to spend one’s leisure.
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College Education Mind
There’s no point in burying a hatchet if you’re going to put up a marker on the site.
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Forgiveness Heartbroken Site
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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Belief Dogmatic Reason Structure
The greatest enemy of progress is not stagnation, but false progress.
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Enemy Progress Stagnation
The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
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Education Mirror Purpose Whole Window
Any philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs there.
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Discovery Ethics Philosophy

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