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The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.

Sydney J. Harris

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
Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.
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Acceptance Assuming Tolerance
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
Why do most Americans look up to education and down upon educated people?
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Educated Looks People
The best combination of parents consists of a father who is gentle beneath his firmness, and a mother who is firm beneath her gentleness.
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Father Mother Parent
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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Discomfort Middle Partisan
An idealist believes the short run doesn’t count. A cynic believes the long run doesn’t matter.
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Inspirational Love Running
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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Acceptance Endure Terrible
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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Advice Generally Men Mind
A man will lay down his life for his friend but will not sacrifice his eardrums.
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Down Friend Lay Man Sacrifice
Elitism is the slur directed at merit by mediocrity.
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Acceptance Mediocrity Merit
The pessimist sees only the tunnel; the optimist sees the light at the end of the tunnel; the realist sees the tunnel and the light – and the next tunnel.
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Light Next Optimist Tunnels
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
Take away grievances from some people and you remove their reasons for living; most of us are nourished by hope, but a considerable minority get psychic nutrition from their resentments, and would waste away purposelessly without them.
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Minorities People Psychics
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
Men make counterfeit money; in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men.
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Cases Men Money

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