A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive.
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A university is not, primarily, a place in which to learn how to make a living it is a place in which to learn how to be more fully a human being, how to draw upon ones resources, how to discipline the mind and expand the imagination how to make some sense out of the big world we will shortly be thrown into.Sydney J. Harris
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 famously wise old man in a village was once asked how he came by his wisdom. 'I got it from my good judgment,' he answered. And where did his good judgment come from 'I got it from my bad judgment.'
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Maturity begins when we're content to feel we're right about something without feeling the necessity to prove someone else wrong.
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Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
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Parents and teachers too are woefully short-sighted when they try to protect the child from his mistakes, when they make the 'right answer' more important than the quest for knowledge and good judgment. For what is not learned within ones self cannot be learned from another.
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