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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.

Sydney J. Harris

The greatest enemy of progress is not stagnation, but false progress.
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Enemy Progress Stagnation
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
The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
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Education Mirror Purpose Whole Window
Skepticism is not an end in itself; it is a tool for the discovery of truths.
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Discovery Tools Truth
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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Book Broken Effectiveness
Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, ‘Why not?’ and the other, ‘Why bother?’
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Bother Funny Two Witty
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
It is not only useless, it is harmful, to believe in oneself until one truly knows oneself. And to know oneself means to accept our moments of insanity, of eccentricity, of childishness and blindness.
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Believe Insanity Mean
We evaluate others with a Godlike justice, but we want them to evaluate us with a Godlike compassion.
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Compassion Judging Justice
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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Always Done Loser Way
A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive.
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Forgiveness Forgiving Loser
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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Inspirational Love Motivational
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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Answers Predicaments Problem
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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Appreciation Loss Swing
The art of living consists in knowing which impulses to obey and which must be made to obey.
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Art Knowing Made
The truest test of independent judgment is being able to dislike someone who admires us, and to admire someone who dislikes us.
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Dislike Someone Independence Independent

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