There’s no point in burying a hatchet if you’re going to put up a marker on the site.
SYDNEY J. HARRISThe 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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Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
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The world has always been betrayed by decent men with bad ideals.
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As 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 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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A loser says that’s the way it’s always been done. A winner says there ought to be a better way.
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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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Every morning I take out my bankbook, stare at it, shudder – and turn quickly to my typewriter.
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Marriages we regard as the happiest are those in which each of the partners believes he or she got the best of it.
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Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.
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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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Usually, if we hate, it is the shadow of the person that we hate, rather than the substance.
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Happiness is a direction, not a place.
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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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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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We truly possess only what we are able to renounce; otherwise, we are simply possessed by our possessions.
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