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A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive.

Sydney J. Harris

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

Betrayed Men World
Many people know how to work hard; many others know how to play well; but the rarest talent in the world is the ability to introduce elements of playfulness into work, and to put some constructive labor into our leisure.
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Hard People Play Work
More trouble is caused in this world by indiscreet answers than by indiscreet questions.
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Answers Trouble World
Those who imagine that the world is against them have generally conspired to make it true.
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Imagination Imagine World
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
Good teaching must be slow enough so that it is not confusing, and fast enough so that it is not boring.
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Confusing Teacher Teaching
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
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
Ignorance per se is not nearly as dangerous as ignorance of ignorance.
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Dangerous Ignorance Nearly
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
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
Almost every man looks more so in a belted trench coat.
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Coats Looks Men
All significant achievement comes from daring from experiment from the willingness to risk failure.
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Achievement Failure Risk
A man will lay down his life for his friend but will not sacrifice his eardrums.
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Down Friend Lay Man Sacrifice
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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Answers Predicaments Problem
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

A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive.

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