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.
SYDNEY J. HARRISWe truly possess only what we are able to renounce; otherwise, we are simply possessed by our possessions.
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The world has always been betrayed by decent men with bad ideals.
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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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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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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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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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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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The greatest enemy of progress is not stagnation, but false progress.
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Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.
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Skepticism is not an end in itself; it is a tool for the discovery of truths.
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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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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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The best combination of parents consists of a father who is gentle beneath his firmness, and a mother who is firm beneath her gentleness.
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Take away grievances from some people and you remove their reasons for living; most of us are nourished by hope, but a considerable minority get psychic nutrition from their resentments, and would waste away purposelessly without them.
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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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