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A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, he i...  
A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too timid to rebuke and too ...  
Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deser...   Marriage
An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the...  
Any philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs there.  
Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that b...   Government
Enemies, as well as lovers, come to resemble each other over a period ...  
Every morning I take out my bankbook, stare at it, shudder-and turn qu...  
Happiness is a direction, not a place.  
If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indica...   Anger
If the devil could be persuaded to write a bible, he would title it, "...  
Ignorance per se is not nearly as dangerous as ignorance of ignorance.  
In shape, it is perfectly elliptical. In texture, it is smooth and lus...  
Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it pe...  
It's surprising how many persons go through life without ever recogniz...  
Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.  
Many a secret that cannot be pried out by curiosity can be drawn out b...  
Men make counterfeit money; in many more cases, money makes counterfei...  
Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices cal...  
Ninety per cent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing thems...  
Ninety percent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themse...  
Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discov...  
Nothing is as easy to make as a promise this winter to do something ne...  
Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time; what ...  
People who think they're generous to a fault usually think that's thei...  
Perseverance is the most overrated of traits, if it is unaccompanied b...  
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for...  
Somebody who never got over the embarrassing fact that he was born in ...  
Sometimes the best, and only effective, way to kill an idea is to put ...  
The beauty of "spacing" children many years apart lies in the fact tha...  
The greatest enemy of progress is not stagnation, but false progress.  
The most important thing in an argument, next to being right, is to le...  
The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, bu...   Computers
The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor in...  
The time to relax is when you don't have time for it.  
The two words 'information' and 'communication' are often used interch...  
The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.   Education
There's no point in burying a hatchet if you're going to put up a mark...  
We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood un...  
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask,...  
When we have 'second thoughts' about something, our first thoughts don...  
When you run into someone who is disagreeable to others, you may be su...