~ The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's time.
~  ~ Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable. ~ ~ Maturity begins when we're content to feel we're right about something, without feeling the necessity to prove someone else is wrong. ~ ~ Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be ~ ~ The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows. ~ ~ The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows. ~ ~ Many a secret that cannot be pried out by curiosity can be drawn out by indifference. ~ ~ We can often endure an extra pound of pain far more easily than we can suffer the withdrawal of an ounce of accustomed pleasure. ~ ~ If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size? ~ ~ 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 ~ ~ We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we move from the passive voice to the active voice - that is, until we stop saying "It got lost," and say "I lost it." ~ ~ Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be. ~ ~ The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows. ~ ~ When we have 'second thoughts' about something, our first thoughts don't seem like thoughts at all - just feelings. ~ ~ Perseverance is the most overrated of traits, if it is unaccompanied by talent; beating your head against a wall is more likely to produce a concussion in the head than a hole in the wall. ~ Most Popular Topics:
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