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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ur 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.

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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 whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.

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

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

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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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Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.

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