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

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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.

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The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.

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

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Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.

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The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.

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The greatest enemy of progress is not stagnation, but false progress.

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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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