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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

If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?
SYDNEY J. HARRIS

Anger Power Wisdom
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
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
Usually, if we hate, it is the shadow of the person that we hate, rather than the substance.
SYDNEY J. HARRIS

Attitude Hate Shadow
Atheism, on the other hand, is as unyielding and dogmatic about religious belief as true believers are about heathens. It tries to use reason to demolish a structure that is not built upon reason.
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Belief Dogmatic Reason Structure
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
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
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
Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time; what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better.
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Change Funny Love
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
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
Those who imagine that the world is against them have generally conspired to make it true.
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Imagination Imagine World
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 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
Being yourself is not remaining what you were, or being satisfied with what you are. It is the point of departure and far from the goal.
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Being Departure Goat Satisfied Yourself

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