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| Advice | Never take the advice of someone who has not had your kind of trouble. | |
| Debate | 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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| forgiveness | A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive. - (Chicago Sun-Times columnist) | |
| Hardship | When I hear somebody sigh that "Life is hard," I am always tempted to ask, "Compared to what?" - (Journalist) | |
| Idealism | An idealist believes the short run doesn’t count. A cynic believes the long run doesn’t matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run. | |
| innovation | Sometimes the best, and only effective, way to kill an idea is to put it into practice. - (columnist) | |
| Intolerance | Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting. | |
| little things | If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size? - (Columnist) | |
| Midlife | Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, "Why not?" and the other, "Why bother?" | |
| Regret | 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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| Youth | Nothing 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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