The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, 'I was wrong'.
From Sydney J. Harris
The two words 'information' and 'communication' are often used interchangeably, but they signify quite different things. Information is giving out; communication is getting through.
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure.
When I hear somebody say 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask 'Compared to what?'
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?'
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.
Sometimes the best, and only effective, way to kill an idea is to put it into practice.
The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
The time to relax is when you don't have time for it.
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