If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?
SYDNEY J. HARRISThose who imagine that the world is against them have generally conspired to make it true.
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Agnosticism is a perfectly respectable and tenable philosophical position; it is not dogmatic and makes no pronouncements about the ultimate truths of the universe. It remains open to evidence and persuasion; lacking faith, it nevertheless does not deride faith.
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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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Being yourself is not remaining what you were, or being satisfied with what you are. It is the point of departure and far from the goal.
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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 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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The best thing you can give children, next to good habits, are good memories.
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A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive.
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An idealist believes the short run doesn’t count. A cynic believes the long run doesn’t matter.
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The greatest educational dogma is also its greatest fallacy: the belief that what must be learned can necessarily be taught.
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Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.
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We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we have stopped saying ‘It got lost,’ and say, ‘I lost it.’
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We evaluate others with a Godlike justice, but we want them to evaluate us with a Godlike compassion.
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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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Love makes everything lovely; hate concentrates itself on the object of its hatred.
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Usually, if we hate, it is the shadow of the person that we hate, rather than the substance.
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