The art of living consists in knowing which impulses to obey and which must be made to obey.

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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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People far prefer happiness to wisdom, but that is like wanting to be immortal without getting older.

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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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The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure.

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When we have 'second thoughts' about something, our first thoughts don't seem like thoughts at all - just feelings.

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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 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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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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Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.

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