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.
SYDNEY J. HARRISAlmost every man looks more so in a belted trench coat.
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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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Enemies, as well as lovers, come to resemble each other over a period of time.
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We truly possess only what we are able to renounce; otherwise, we are simply possessed by our possessions.
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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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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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Almost every man looks more so in a belted trench coat.
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Ignorance per se is not nearly as dangerous as ignorance of ignorance.
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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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The art of living consists in knowing which impulses to obey and which must be made to obey.
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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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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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A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, his is also one who is permanently disappointed in the future.
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When we inform, we lead from strength; when we communicate, we lead from weakness-and it is precisely this confession of mortality that engages the ears, heads and hearts of those we want to enlist as allies in a common cause.
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Agnosticism is a perfectly respectable and tenable philosophical position; it is not dogmatic and makes no pronouncements about the ultimate truths of the universe. It remains open to evidence and persuasion; lacking faith, it nevertheless does not deride faith.
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Those who imagine that the world is against them have generally conspired to make it true.
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