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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

Why do most Americans look up to education and down upon educated people?
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Educated Looks People
All significant achievement comes from daring from experiment from the willingness to risk failure.
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Achievement Failure Risk
Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.
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Brain Knowledge One Small
Making out an invitation list for a party brings out the worst in everyone. It is then that our most ruthless estimates of the people we know come into play.
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Estimated Party People Play Worst
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
By the time a man asks you for advice, he has generally made up his mind what he wants to do, and is looking for confirmation rather than counseling.
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Advice Generally Men Mind
We truly possess only what we are able to renounce; otherwise, we are simply possessed by our possessions.
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Able Possession Renounce
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
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
Every morning I take out my bankbook, stare at it, shudder – and turn quickly to my typewriter.
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Morning Staring Typewriters
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
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
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
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 severest test of character is not so much the ability to keep a secret as it is, when the secret is finally out, to refrain from disclosing that you knew it all along.
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Character Refrain Secret Several Tests
It’s surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely determined by their feelings toward themselves, and if you’re not comfortable within yourself, you can’t be comfortable with others.
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Confidence Relationship Self Esteem

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