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Usually, if we hate, it is the shadow of the person that we hate, rather than the substance.

Sydney J. Harris

A loser says that’s the way it’s always been done. A winner says there ought to be a better way.
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Always Done Loser Way
Men make counterfeit money; in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men.
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Cases Men Money
Those who imagine that the world is against them have generally conspired to make it true.
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Imagination Imagine World
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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Keeping Promises Summer Winter
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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Feelings Order People
If you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the problem, but the perpetual human predicament is that the answer soon poses its own problems.
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Answers Predicaments Problem
Why do most Americans look up to education and down upon educated people?
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Educated Looks People
The pessimist sees only the tunnel; the optimist sees the light at the end of the tunnel; the realist sees the tunnel and the light – and the next tunnel.
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Light Next Optimist Tunnels
Enemies, as well as lovers, come to resemble each other over a period of time.
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Enemy Lovers Time Love
Patriotism is proud of a country’s virtues and eager to correct its deficiencies; it also acknowledges the legitimate patriotism of other countries, with their own specific virtues.
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Country Humility Legitimate Pride
Honesty consists of the unwillingness to lie to others; maturity, which is equally hard to attain, consists of the unwillingness to lie to oneself.
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Attain Honesty Lying Maturity Truth
More trouble is caused in this world by indiscreet answers than by indiscreet questions.
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Answers Trouble World
Happiness is a direction, not a place.
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Being Direction Happiness Happy Place
The severest test of character is not so much the ability to keep a secret as it is, when the secret is finally out, to refrain from disclosing that you knew it all along.
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Character Refrain Secret Several Tests
The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
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Education Mirror Purpose Whole Window
Time 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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Care Commodity Precious Time World

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