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There is no such thing as an “atrocity” in warfare that is greater than the atrocity of warfare itself.

Sydney J. Harris

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
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
Many married couples separate because they quarrel incessantly, but just as many separate because they were never honest enough or courageous enough to quarrel when they should have.
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Couple Couples Divorce Quarrel Separate
The greatest educational dogma is also its greatest fallacy: the belief that what must be learned can necessarily be taught.
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Creative Educational Taught
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
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
Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, ‘Why not?’ and the other, ‘Why bother?’
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Bother Funny Two Witty
A university is not, primarily, a place in which to learn how to make a living; it is a place in which to learn how to be more fully a human being, how to draw upon one’s resources, how to discipline the mind and expand the imagination; how to make some sense out of the big world we will shortly be thrown into.
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Discipline Learning Life
Love makes everything lovely; hate concentrates itself on the object of its hatred.
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Convcentarted Everything Hatred Love Object
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
The loner may be respected, but he is always resented by his colleagues, for he seems to be passing a critical judgment on them, when he may be simply making a limiting statement about himself.
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Loner May Solitude
Ignorance per se is not nearly as dangerous as ignorance of ignorance.
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Dangerous Ignorance Nearly
Almost every man looks more so in a belted trench coat.
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Coats Looks Men
The best thing you can give children, next to good habits, are good memories.
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Children Memories Mom
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
It’s odd, and a little unsettling, to reflect upon the fact that English is the only major language in which “I” is capitalized; in many other languages “You” is capitalized and the “i” is lower case.” —
SYDNEY J. HARRIS

English Facts Language Littles Unsetting

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