Most people are mirrors, reflecting the moods and emotions of the times. Some people are windows, bringing light to bear on the dark corners where troubles fester. The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
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If the devil could be persuaded to write a bible, he would title it, You Only Live Once.
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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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Ninety per cent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. 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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Man's unique agony as a species consists in his perpetual conflict between the desire to stand out and the need to blend in.
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The most important tactic 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 an embarrassing loss of face.
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The pessimist sees only the tunnel; the optimist sees the light at the end of the tunnel; the realist sees the tunnel and the light - and the next tunnel.
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People who are often in a hurry imagine they are energetic, when in most cases they are simply inefficient.
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A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future.
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The time to relax is when you don't have time for it.
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Once we assuage our conscience by calling something a necessary evil, it begins to look more and more necessary and less and less evil.
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The greatest enemy of progress is not stagnation, but false progress.
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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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Take time to relax especially when you don't have time for it.
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Sometimes the best, and only effective, way to kill an idea is to put it into practice.
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