Enemies, as well as lovers, come to resemble each other over a period of time.
SYDNEY J. HARRISMany people feel “guilty” about things they shouldn’t feel guilty about, in order to shut out feelings of guilt about things they should feel guilty about.
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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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Elitism is the slur directed at merit by mediocrity.
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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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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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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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If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?
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There is no such thing as an “atrocity” in warfare that is greater than the atrocity of warfare itself.
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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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Every morning I take out my bankbook, stare at it, shudder – and turn quickly to my typewriter.
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There’s no point in burying a hatchet if you’re going to put up a marker on the site.
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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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We evaluate others with a Godlike justice, but we want them to evaluate us with a Godlike compassion.
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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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And most of the failures in parent-child relationships, from my observation, begin when the child begins to acquire a mind and a will of its own, to make independent decisions and to question the omnipotence or the wisdom of the parent.
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Why do most Americans look up to education and down upon educated people?
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Those who imagine that the world is against them have generally conspired to make it true.
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The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
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Men make counterfeit money; in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men.
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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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The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one’s mind a pleasant place in which to spend one’s leisure.
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The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
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When I hear somebody sigh, ‘Life is hard,’ I am always tempted to ask, ‘Compared to what?’
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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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The greatest enemy of progress is not stagnation, but false progress.
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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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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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