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Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.

Sydney J. Harris

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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Assert Children Defensively Terms Track
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
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Inspirational Love Motivational
Many 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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Feelings Order People
You may be sure that when a man begins to call himself a realist he is preparing to do something that he is secretly ashamed of doing.
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Cynical May Men
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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Men Unique War
Love makes everything lovely; hate concentrates itself on the object of its hatred.
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Convcentarted Everything Hatred Love Object
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
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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Believe Best Love Partner
The main discomfort in being a middle-of-the-roader is that you get sideswiped by partisans going in both directions.
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Discomfort Middle Partisan
Enemies, as well as lovers, come to resemble each other over a period of time.
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Enemy Lovers Time Love
The best combination of parents consists of a father who is gentle beneath his firmness, and a mother who is firm beneath her gentleness.
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Father Mother Parent
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
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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Hands Philosophical Religious
Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves – so how can we know anyone else?
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Anyone Else Most Stranger
Honesty consists of the unwillingness to lie to others; maturity, which is equally hard to attain, consists of the unwillingness to lie to oneself.
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Attain Honesty Lying Maturity Truth
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

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