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Usually, if we hate, it is the shadow of the person that we hate, rather than the substance.

Sydney J. Harris

We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we have stopped saying ‘It got lost,’ and say, ‘I lost it.’
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Education Parenting Responsibility
Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.
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Brain Knowledge One Small
When we have “second thoughts” about something, our first thoughts don’t seem like thoughts at all – just feelings.
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Feelings Firsts Justice
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 time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
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Funny Time Witty
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
All significant achievement comes from daring from experiment from the willingness to risk failure.
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Achievement Failure Risk
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
Elitism is the slur directed at merit by mediocrity.
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Acceptance Mediocrity Merit
A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive.
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Forgiveness Forgiving Loser
Those who imagine that the world is against them have generally conspired to make it true.
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Imagination Imagine World
Love makes everything lovely; hate concentrates itself on the object of its hatred.
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Convcentarted Everything Hatred Love Object
Ignorance per se is not nearly as dangerous as ignorance of ignorance.
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Dangerous Ignorance Nearly
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
Skepticism is not an end in itself; it is a tool for the discovery of truths.
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Discovery Tools Truth
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

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