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" Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity; yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage. "
Marriage
Imagination
Great
" An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run. "
Done
Short
Run
" Any philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs there. "
Belongs
Any
Put
" A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive. "
Winner
Forgiveness
Loser
" Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be. "
Only
System
Democracy
" Enemies, as well as lovers, come to resemble each other over a period of time. "
Well
Come
Enemies
" Happiness is a direction, not a place. "
Happiness
Place
Direction
" If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size? "
Power
Size
Small
" Ignorance per se is not nearly as dangerous as ignorance of ignorance. "
Ignorance
Per
Dangerous
" Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting. "
Most
Intolerance
Without
" It's surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely determined by their feelings toward themselves, and if you're not comfortable within yourself, you can't be comfortable with others. "
People
Yourself
You
" Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one. "
Large
Merely
Small
" Many a secret that cannot be pried out by curiosity can be drawn out by indifference. "
Out
Curiosity
Indifference
" Men make counterfeit money; in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men. "
Men
Make
Makes
" Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, 'Why not?' and the other, 'Why bother?' "
Why
Saying
Life
" 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? "
Not Knowing
Know
People
" Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own. "
Own
Old
Nobody
" Nothing is as easy to make as a promise this winter to do something next summer; this is how commencement speakers are caught. "
How
Nothing
Summer
" Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time; what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better. "
Hate
Time
Change
" People who think they're generous to a fault usually think that's their only fault. "
Think
Fault
Generous
" Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable. "
Things
Wisdom
Time
" Somebody who never got over the embarrassing fact that he was born in bed with a lady. "
Over
Fact
Lady
" Sometimes the best, and only effective, way to kill an idea is to put it into practice. "
Way
Practice
Only
" The art of living consists in knowing which impulses to obey and which must be made to obey. "
Living
Made
Art
" The beauty of 'spacing' children many years apart lies in the fact that parents have time to learn the mistakes that were made with the older ones - which permits them to make exactly the opposite mistakes with the younger ones. "
Beauty
Time
Learn
" The greatest enemy of progress is not stagnation, but false progress. "
Enemy
Progress
Greatest
" 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. "
Important
Face
Argument
" The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure. "
Purpose
Mind
Leisure
" The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers. "
Computers
Danger
Men
" There's no point in burying a hatchet if you're going to put up a marker on the site. "
Going
Burying
No Point
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