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The public examination of homosexuality in our contemporary life is still so coated with distasteful moral connotations that even a reviewer is bound to wonder uneasily why he was selected to evaluate a book on the subject.

Sydney J. Harris

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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Education Parenting Responsibility
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
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
Enemies, as well as lovers, come to resemble each other over a period of time.
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Enemy Lovers Time Love
Happiness is a direction, not a place.
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Being Direction Happiness Happy Place
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
If you cannot endure to be thought in the wrong, you will begin to do terrible things to make the wrong appear right.
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Acceptance Endure Terrible
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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Being Departure Goat Satisfied Yourself
A university is not, primarily, a place in which to learn how to make a living; it is a place in which to learn how to be more fully a human being, how to draw upon one’s resources, how to discipline the mind and expand the imagination; how to make some sense out of the big world we will shortly be thrown into.
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Discipline Learning Life
Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
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Ideas Men Thinking
There are always too many Democratic congressmen, too many Republican congressmen, and never enough U.S. congressmen.
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Democracy Republican Voting
The best thing you can give children, next to good habits, are good memories.
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Children Memories Mom
Atheism, on the other hand, is as unyielding and dogmatic about religious belief as true believers are about heathens. It tries to use reason to demolish a structure that is not built upon reason.
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Belief Dogmatic Reason Structure
Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, ‘Why not?’ and the other, ‘Why bother?’
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Bother Funny Two Witty
Nothing is as easy to make as a promise this winter to do something next summer; this is how commencement speakers are caught.
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Keeping Promises Summer Winter
Men make counterfeit money; in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men.
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Cases Men Money

The public examination of homosexuality in our contemporary life is still so coated with distasteful moral connotations that even a reviewer is bound to wonder uneasily why he was selected to evaluate a book on the subject.

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The public examination of homosexuality in our contemporary life is still so coated with distasteful moral connotations that even a reviewer is bound to wonder uneasily why he was selected to evaluate a book on the subject.

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