Why do most Americans look up to education and down upon educated people?
- Sydney J. Harris
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- Ninety per cent of the world’s woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and...
- It’s surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are...
- Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time; what we really want...
- When I hear somebody sigh, ‘Life is hard,’ I am always tempted to ask, ‘Compared to what?’
- The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
- The difference between patriotism and nationalism is that the patriot is proud of his country for what it...
- Happiness is a direction, not a place.
- History repeats itself, but in such cunning disguise that we never detect the resemblance until the damage is...
- There’s no point in burying a hatchet if you’re going to put up a marker on the site.
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