Marriages we regard as the happiest are those in which each of the partners believes he or she got the best of it.
SYDNEY J. HARRISThe 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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Almost every man looks more so in a belted trench coat.
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The best thing you can give children, next to good habits, are good memories.
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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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A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive.
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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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If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?
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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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Enemies, as well as lovers, come to resemble each other over a period of time.
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The founder of every creed from Jesus Christ to Karl Marx, would be appalled to return to earth and see what has been made of that creed, not by its enemies, but by its most devoted adherents.
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Happiness is a direction, not a place.
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A man will lay down his life for his friend but will not sacrifice his eardrums.
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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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Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.
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People who think they’re generous to a fault usually think that’s their only fault.
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