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Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, 'Why not?' and the other, 'Why bother?'

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Sometimes the best, and only effective, way to kill an idea is to put it into practice.

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It's surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely determined by their feelings toward themselves, and if you're not comfortable within yourself, you can't be comfortable with others.

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Any philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs there.

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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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The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure.

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Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.

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Ignorance per se is not nearly as dangerous as ignorance of ignorance.

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Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity; yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage.

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The beauty of 'spacing' children many years apart lies in the fact that parents have time to learn the mistakes that were made with the older ones - which permits them to make exactly the opposite mistakes with the younger ones.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: September 14th, 1917

Died: December 8th, 1986

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