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.
SYDNEY J. HARRISEvery 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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There is no such thing as an “atrocity” in warfare that is greater than the atrocity of warfare itself.
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When I hear somebody sigh, ‘Life is hard,’ I am always tempted to ask, ‘Compared to what?’
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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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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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More trouble is caused in this world by indiscreet answers than by indiscreet questions.
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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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Any philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs there.
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An idealist believes the short run doesn’t count. A cynic believes the long run doesn’t matter.
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The most important thing in an argument, next to being right, is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent, so that he can gracefully swing over to your side without too much apparent loss of face.
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The greatest educational dogma is also its greatest fallacy: the belief that what must be learned can necessarily be taught.
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When we have “second thoughts” about something, our first thoughts don’t seem like thoughts at all – just feelings.
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Ignorance per se is not nearly as dangerous as ignorance of ignorance.
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Marriages we regard as the happiest are those in which each of the partners believes he or she got the best of it.
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It’s odd, and a little unsettling, to reflect upon the fact that English is the only major language in which “I” is capitalized; in many other languages “You” is capitalized and the “i” is lower case.” —
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Usually, if we hate, it is the shadow of the person that we hate, rather than the substance.
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