There’s no point in burying a hatchet if you’re going to put up a marker on the site.
SYDNEY J. HARRISHappiness is a direction, not a place.
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Man’s unique agony as a species consists in his perpetual conflict between the desire to stand out and the need to blend in.
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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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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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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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Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves – so how can we know anyone else?
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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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It is not only useless, it is harmful, to believe in oneself until one truly knows oneself. And to know oneself means to accept our moments of insanity, of eccentricity, of childishness and blindness.
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A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, his is also one who is permanently disappointed in the future.
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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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The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
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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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A man will lay down his life for his friend but will not sacrifice his eardrums.
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Happiness is a direction, not a place.
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You may be sure that when a man begins to call himself a realist he is preparing to do something that he is secretly ashamed of doing.
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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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Elitism is the slur directed at merit by mediocrity.
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Ignorance per se is not nearly as dangerous as ignorance of ignorance.
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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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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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What is much harder to handle is the sense that you have to live up to the mark someone else has set for you. The grades become too important, the competition too frantic, the fear of disappointing those who believe in you turns into an overwhelming nightmare.
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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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Never let your fears be the boundaries of your dreams. Happiness is a direction, not a place.
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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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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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There are always too many Democratic congressmen, too many Republican congressmen, and never enough U.S. congressmen.
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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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