There’s no point in burying a hatchet if you’re going to put up a marker on the site.
SYDNEY J. HARRISThe founder of every creed from Jesus Christ to Karl Marx, would be appalled to return to earth and see what has been made of that creed, not by its enemies, but by its most devoted adherents.
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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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Good teaching must be slow enough so that it is not confusing, and fast enough so that it is not boring.
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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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There is no such thing as an “atrocity” in warfare that is greater than the atrocity of warfare itself.
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The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
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Nobody really knows how smart or talented he is until he finds the incentives to use himself to the fullest. God has given us more than we know what to do with.
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Enemies, as well as lovers, come to resemble each other over a period of time.
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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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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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Real loneliness consists not in being alone, but in being with the wrong person, in the suffocating darkness of a room in which no deep communication is possible.
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Those who imagine that the world is against them have generally conspired to make it true.
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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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An idealist believes the short run doesn’t count. A cynic believes the long run doesn’t matter.
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People decline invitations when they are “indisposed” physically, and I wish they would do likewise when they feel indisposed emotionally. A person has no more right to attend a party with a head full of venom than with a throat full of virus.
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Making out an invitation list for a party brings out the worst in everyone. It is then that our most ruthless estimates of the people we know come into play.
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