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Elitism is the slur directed at merit by mediocrity.

Sydney J. Harris

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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Communication Loneliness Real
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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Men Unique War
It’s surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely determined by their feelings toward themselves, and if you’re not comfortable within yourself, you can’t be comfortable with others.
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Confidence Relationship Self Esteem
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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Believe Best Love Partner
We evaluate others with a Godlike justice, but we want them to evaluate us with a Godlike compassion.
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Compassion Judging Justice
When we have “second thoughts” about something, our first thoughts don’t seem like thoughts at all – just feelings.
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Feelings Firsts Justice
Skepticism is not an end in itself; it is a tool for the discovery of truths.
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Discovery Tools Truth
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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Couple Couples Divorce Quarrel Separate
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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Art Choices Squares
The loner may be respected, but he is always resented by his colleagues, for he seems to be passing a critical judgment on them, when he may be simply making a limiting statement about himself.
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Loner May Solitude
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
Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.
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Brain Knowledge One Small
The greatest enemy of progress is not stagnation, but false progress.
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Enemy Progress Stagnation
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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Minorities People Psychics
Between the semi-educated, who offer simplistic answers to complex questions, and the overeducated, who offer complicated answers to simple questions, it is a wonder that any questions get satisfactorily answered at all.
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Answers Simple Wonder
People who think they’re generous to a fault usually think that’s their only fault.
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Generosity People Thinking

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