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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.

Sydney J. Harris
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There's no point in burying a hatchet if you're going to put up a marker on the site.
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The art of living consists in knowing which impulses to obey and which must be made to obey.
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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 greatest enemy of progress is not stagnation, but false progress.
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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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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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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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Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.
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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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Enemies, as well as lovers, come to resemble each other over a period of time.
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Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.
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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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People who think they're generous to a fault usually think that's their only fault.
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Men make counterfeit money; in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men.
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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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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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Ignorance per se is not nearly as dangerous as ignorance of ignorance.
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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 real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.
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If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?
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The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
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Many a secret that cannot be pried out by curiosity can be drawn out by indifference.
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The time to relax is when you don't have time for it.
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Any philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs there.
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Nothing is as easy to make as a promise this winter to do something next summer; this is how commencement speakers are caught.
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Happiness is a direction, not a place.
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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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A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive.
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Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.
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When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?'
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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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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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Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, 'Why not?' and the other, 'Why bother?'
Sydney J. Harris
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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The truest test of independent judgment is being able to dislike someone who admires us, and to admire someone who dislikes us.
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The two words information and communication are often used interchangeably but they signify quite different things. Information is giving out communication is getting through.
Sydney J. Harris
The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men but that men will begin to think like computers.
Sydney J. Harris
The most important tactic 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 an embarrassing loss of face.
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Enemies as well as lovers come to resemble each other over a period of time.
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The time to relax is when you dont have time for it.
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