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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
If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?
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Anger Power Wisdom
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
People decline invitations when they are “indisposed” physically, and I wish they would do likewise when they feel indisposed emotionally. A person has no more right to attend a party with a head full of venom than with a throat full of virus.
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Imposed Party People Physically Wish
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
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
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
Every rule in the book can be broken, except one – be who you are, and become all you were meant to be.
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Book Broken Effectiveness
Never let your fears be the boundaries of your dreams. Happiness is a direction, not a place.
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Boundaries Dream Dreams Follow
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
Nobody really knows how smart or talented he is until he finds the incentives to use himself to the fullest. God has given us more than we know what to do with.
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Commodity Nobody Precious Really Talented
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
Take away grievances from some people and you remove their reasons for living; most of us are nourished by hope, but a considerable minority get psychic nutrition from their resentments, and would waste away purposelessly without them.
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Minorities People Psychics
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 primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one’s mind a pleasant place in which to spend one’s leisure.
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College Education Mind
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

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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