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The world has always been betrayed by decent men with bad ideals.

Sydney J. Harris

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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Fear Ourselves Person Someone Younger
A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive.
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Forgiveness Forgiving Loser
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
Between the semi-educated, who offer simplistic answers to complex questions, and the overeducated, who offer complicated answers to simple questions, it is a wonder that any questions get satisfactorily answered at all.
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Answers Simple Wonder
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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Country Humility Legitimate Pride
The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
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Education Mirror Purpose Whole Window
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
Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.
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Brain Knowledge One Small
We evaluate others with a Godlike justice, but we want them to evaluate us with a Godlike compassion.
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Compassion Judging Justice
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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Math Real Technology
Elitism is the slur directed at merit by mediocrity.
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Acceptance Mediocrity Merit
Every morning I take out my bankbook, stare at it, shudder – and turn quickly to my typewriter.
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Morning Staring Typewriters
The greatest enemy of progress is not stagnation, but false progress.
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Enemy Progress Stagnation
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
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
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

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