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.

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Self-discipline without talent can often achieve astounding results, whereas talent without self-discipline inevitably dooms itself to failure.

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The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.

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History repeats itself, but in such cunning disguise that we never detect the resemblance until the damage is done.

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The two words ‘information’ and ‘communication’ are often used interchangeably, but they signify quite different things. Information is giving out; communication is getting through.

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If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?

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A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive.

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The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.

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When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?

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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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