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.
SYDNEY J. HARRISPeople who think they’re generous to a fault usually think that’s their only fault.
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What is much harder to handle is the sense that you have to live up to the mark someone else has set for you. The grades become too important, the competition too frantic, the fear of disappointing those who believe in you turns into an overwhelming nightmare.
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A ‘penchant for telling the truth’ can cripple a candidates chances faster than being caught in flagrante delicto with the governor’s wife.
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Almost every man looks more so in a belted trench coat.
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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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Every morning I take out my bankbook, stare at it, shudder – and turn quickly to my typewriter.
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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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More trouble is caused in this world by indiscreet answers than by indiscreet questions.
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There are always too many Democratic congressmen, too many Republican congressmen, and never enough U.S. congressmen.
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The main discomfort in being a middle-of-the-roader is that you get sideswiped by partisans going in both directions.
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You may be sure that when a man begins to call himself a realist he is preparing to do something that he is secretly ashamed of doing.
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A loser says that’s the way it’s always been done. A winner says there ought to be a better way.
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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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The pessimist sees only the tunnel; the optimist sees the light at the end of the tunnel; the realist sees the tunnel and the light – and the next tunnel.
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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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A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, his is also one who is permanently disappointed in the future.
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