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We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee.
SAT tests are designed by huge panels of experts in education and psychology who work for years to design tests in which not one single question measures any bit of knowledge that anyone might actually need in the real world. We should applaud kids for getting lower scores.
Americans need rest, but do not know it. I believe this to be a large part of the explanation of the crime wave in the United States.
Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.
Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.
I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult the calendar.
Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
To say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up to the elbows. It's easy to say no, even if it means dying.
About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won't like you at all.
All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line. Many a man had taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of you first.
Middle age is when you're faced with two temptations and you choose the one that will get you home by 9 o'clock.
I argue very well. Ask any of my remaining friends. I can win an argument on any topic, against any opponent. People know this, and steer clear of me at parties. Often, as a sign of their great respect, they don't even invite me.
Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.
We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold; and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price.
People travel to wonder at the height of the mountains, at the huge waves of the seas, at the long course of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars, and yet they pass by themselves without wondering.
When trouble arises and things look bad, there is always one individual who perceives a solution and is willing to take command. Very often, that person is crazy.
Nothing is more destined to create deep-seated anxieties in people than the false assumption that life should be free from anxieties.
The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.
