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.
SYDNEY J. HARRISEnemies, as well as lovers, come to resemble each other over a period of time.
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All significant achievement comes from daring from experiment from the willingness to risk failure.
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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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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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The greatest educational dogma is also its greatest fallacy: the belief that what must be learned can necessarily be taught.
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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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Many people know how to work hard; many others know how to play well; but the rarest talent in the world is the ability to introduce elements of playfulness into work, and to put some constructive labor into our leisure.
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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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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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It’s odd, and a little unsettling, to reflect upon the fact that English is the only major language in which “I” is capitalized; in many other languages “You” is capitalized and the “i” is lower case.” —
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A man will lay down his life for his friend but will not sacrifice his eardrums.
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A ‘penchant for telling the truth’ can cripple a candidates chances faster than being caught in flagrante delicto with the governor’s wife.
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Those who imagine that the world is against them have generally conspired to make it true.
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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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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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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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