Almost every man looks more so in a belted trench coat.
SYDNEY J. HARRISThe world has always been betrayed by decent men with bad ideals.
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And to assert defensively at the outset that he is happily married, the father of four children and the one-time adornment of his college boxing, track and tennis teams.
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The public examination of homosexuality in our contemporary life is still so coated with distasteful moral connotations that even a reviewer is bound to wonder uneasily why he was selected to evaluate a book on the subject.
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Those who imagine that the world is against them have generally conspired to make it true.
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Marriages we regard as the happiest are those in which each of the partners believes he or she got the best of it.
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Ignorance per se is not nearly as dangerous as ignorance of ignorance.
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There are always too many Democratic congressmen, too many Republican congressmen, and never enough U.S. congressmen.
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A ‘penchant for telling the truth’ can cripple a candidates chances faster than being caught in flagrante delicto with the governor’s wife.
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When we inform, we lead from strength; when we communicate, we lead from weakness-and it is precisely this confession of mortality that engages the ears, heads and hearts of those we want to enlist as allies in a common cause.
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Happiness is a direction, not a place.
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Men make counterfeit money; in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men.
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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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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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Any philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs there.
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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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Many people feel “guilty” about things they shouldn’t feel guilty about, in order to shut out feelings of guilt about things they should feel guilty about.
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Nobody really knows how smart or talented he is until he finds the incentives to use himself to the fullest. God has given us more than we know what to do with.
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Never let your fears be the boundaries of your dreams. Happiness is a direction, not a place.
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Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time; what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better.
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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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Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.
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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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Real loneliness consists not in being alone, but in being with the wrong person, in the suffocating darkness of a room in which no deep communication is possible.
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Making out an invitation list for a party brings out the worst in everyone. It is then that our most ruthless estimates of the people we know come into play.
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Life is, if anything, the art of combination. Of discrimination. Of freely picking one’s own personal pattern out of a hundred choices. Not letting it be picked for you-either by the Establishment, or by the Rebels. Conformity of Hip is no better than Conformity of Square.
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And nobody is more aware of this difference (although unconsciously) than a child. Only an authentic person can evoke a good response in the core of the other person; only person is resonant to person.
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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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