"The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows."
-Sydney J. Harris
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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.“
-Sydney J. Harris
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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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