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Elitism is the slur directed at merit by mediocrity.

Sydney J. Harris

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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Assert Children Defensively Terms Track
The truest test of independent judgment is being able to dislike someone who admires us, and to admire someone who dislikes us.
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Dislike Someone Independence Independent
Every rule in the book can be broken, except one – be who you are, and become all you were meant to be.
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Book Broken Effectiveness
Happiness is a direction, not a place.
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Being Direction Happiness Happy Place
The greatest enemy of progress is not stagnation, but false progress.
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Enemy Progress Stagnation
Almost every man looks more so in a belted trench coat.
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Coats Looks Men
Many people know how to work hard; many others know how to play well; but the rarest talent in the world is the ability to introduce elements of playfulness into work, and to put some constructive labor into our leisure.
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Hard People Play Work
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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Math Real Technology
The world has always been betrayed by decent men with bad ideals.
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Betrayed Men World
The main discomfort in being a middle-of-the-roader is that you get sideswiped by partisans going in both directions.
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Discomfort Middle Partisan
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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Cynical May Men
More trouble is caused in this world by indiscreet answers than by indiscreet questions.
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Answers Trouble World
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
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
The art of living consists in knowing which impulses to obey and which must be made to obey.
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Art Knowing Made
As the horsepower in modern automobiles steadily rises, the congestion of traffic steadily lowers the average possible speed of your car. This is known as Progress.
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Average Car Progress

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