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The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, 'I was wrong'.

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When we have 'second thoughts' about something, our first thoughts don't seem like thoughts at all - just feelings.

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A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive.

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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.

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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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When you run into someone who is disagreeable to others, you may be sure he is uncomfortable with himself; the amount of pain we inflict upon others is directly proportional to the amount we feel within us.

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The greatest enemy of progress is not stagnation, but false progress.

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Ninety per cent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves - so how can we know anyone else?

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Men make counterfeit money; in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men.

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Nobody 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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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: September 14th, 1917

Died: December 8th, 1986

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