There’s no point in burying a hatchet if you’re going to put up a marker on the site.
SYDNEY J. HARRISTime is love, above all else. It is the most precious commodity in the world and should be lavished on those we care most about.
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Elitism is the slur directed at merit by mediocrity.
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Being yourself is not remaining what you were, or being satisfied with what you are. It is the point of departure and far from the goal.
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There is no such thing as an “atrocity” in warfare that is greater than the atrocity of warfare itself.
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The world has always been betrayed by decent men with bad ideals.
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And most of the failures in parent-child relationships, from my observation, begin when the child begins to acquire a mind and a will of its own, to make independent decisions and to question the omnipotence or the wisdom of the parent.
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Many married couples separate because they quarrel incessantly, but just as many separate because they were never honest enough or courageous enough to quarrel when they should have.
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If you cannot endure to be thought in the wrong, you will begin to do terrible things to make the wrong appear right.
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Almost every man looks more so in a belted trench coat.
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Any philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs there.
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Atheism, on the other hand, is as unyielding and dogmatic about religious belief as true believers are about heathens. It tries to use reason to demolish a structure that is not built upon reason.
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We may hate a person because he reminds us of someone we feared and disliked when younger; or because we see in him some gross caricature of what we find repugnant in ourself; or because he symbolizes an attitude that seems to threaten us.
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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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We can often endure an extra pound of pain far more easily than we can suffer the withdrawal of an ounce of accustomed pleasure.
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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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By the time a man asks you for advice, he has generally made up his mind what he wants to do, and is looking for confirmation rather than counseling.
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