As long as there are human beings, there will be the idea of brotherhood -- and an almost total inability to practice it.
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A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future.
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Nothing is as easy to make as a promise this winter to do something next summer; this is how commencement speakers are caught.
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Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.
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Our 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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Our 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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Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, ""Why not?"" and the other, ""Why bother?""
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If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem, but the perpetual human predicament is that the answer soon poses its own problems.
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The reason that truth is stranger than fiction is that fiction has to have a rational thread running through it in order to be believable, whereas reality may be totally irrational.
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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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