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If you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the problem, but the perpetual human predicament is that the answer soon poses its own problems.

Sydney J. Harris

The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
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Education Mirror Purpose Whole Window
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
The pessimist sees only the tunnel; the optimist sees the light at the end of the tunnel; the realist sees the tunnel and the light – and the next tunnel.
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Light Next Optimist Tunnels
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
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
There are always too many Democratic congressmen, too many Republican congressmen, and never enough U.S. congressmen.
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Democracy Republican Voting
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
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
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
No one should pay attention to a man delivering a lecture or a sermon on his “philosophy of life” until we know exactly how he treats his wife, his children, his neighbors, his friends, his subordinates and his enemies.
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Children Men Philosophy
More trouble is caused in this world by indiscreet answers than by indiscreet questions.
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Answers Trouble World
The truest test of independent judgment is being able to dislike someone who admires us, and to admire someone who dislikes us.
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Dislike Someone Independence Independent
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
A ‘penchant for telling the truth’ can cripple a candidates chances faster than being caught in flagrante delicto with the governor’s wife.
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Chance Telling Truth Wife
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
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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Children Coated Examination Father Review Team

If you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the problem, but the perpetual human predicament is that the answer soon poses its own problems.

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