There are always too many Democratic congressmen, too many Republican congressmen, and never enough U.S. congressmen.
SYDNEY J. HARRISThe whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
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No one should pay attention to a man delivering a lecture or a sermon on his “philosophy of life” until we know exactly how he treats his wife, his children, his neighbors, his friends, his subordinates and his enemies.
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Skepticism is not an end in itself; it is a tool for the discovery of truths.
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Never let your fears be the boundaries of your dreams. Happiness is a direction, not a place.
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The severest test of character is not so much the ability to keep a secret as it is, when the secret is finally out, to refrain from disclosing that you knew it all along.
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What is much harder to handle is the sense that you have to live up to the mark someone else has set for you. The grades become too important, the competition too frantic, the fear of disappointing those who believe in you turns into an overwhelming nightmare.
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You may be sure that when a man begins to call himself a realist he is preparing to do something that he is secretly ashamed of doing.
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A winner knows how much he still has to learn, even when he is considered an expert by others; a loser wants to be considered an expert by others before he has learned enough to know how little he knows.
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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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More trouble is caused in this world by indiscreet answers than by indiscreet questions.
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An idealist believes the short run doesn’t count. A cynic believes the long run doesn’t matter.
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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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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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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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A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive.
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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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