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When we have “second thoughts” about something, our first thoughts don’t seem like thoughts at all – just feelings.

Sydney J. Harris

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
Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time; what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better.
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Change Funny Love
There’s no point in burying a hatchet if you’re going to put up a marker on the site.
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Forgiveness Heartbroken Site
Usually, if we hate, it is the shadow of the person that we hate, rather than the substance.
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Attitude Hate Shadow
Enemies, as well as lovers, come to resemble each other over a period of time.
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Enemy Lovers Time Love
Almost every man looks more so in a belted trench coat.
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Coats Looks Men
Elitism is the slur directed at merit by mediocrity.
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Acceptance Mediocrity Merit
This is a lesson mankind has not yet learned. We identify, and stratify, and treat persons largely on the basis of their accidental (physical) characteristics, which have no deeper meaning.
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Characteristics Lessons Treats
The world has always been betrayed by decent men with bad ideals.
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Betrayed Men World
A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, his is also one who is permanently disappointed in the future.
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Fear Lessons Past
Why do most Americans look up to education and down upon educated people?
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Educated Looks People
Those who imagine that the world is against them have generally conspired to make it true.
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Imagination Imagine World
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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Children Independent
Happiness is a direction, not a place.
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Being Direction Happiness Happy Place
A loser says that’s the way it’s always been done. A winner says there ought to be a better way.
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Always Done Loser Way
Love makes everything lovely; hate concentrates itself on the object of its hatred.
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Convcentarted Everything Hatred Love Object

When we have “second thoughts” about something, our first thoughts don’t seem like thoughts at all – just feelings.

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When we have “second thoughts” about something, our first thoughts don’t seem like thoughts at all – just feelings.

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