You may be certain that when a man begins to call himself a 'realist,' he is preparing to do something he is secretly ashamed of.
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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 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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Somebody who never got over the embarrassing fact that he was born in bed with a lady.
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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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Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.
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It may be true that the weak will always be driven to the wall but it is the task of a just society to see that the wall is climbable.
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