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There are always too many Democratic congressmen, too many Republican congressmen, and never enough U.S. congressmen.

Sydney J. Harris

Skepticism is not an end in itself; it is a tool for the discovery of truths.
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Discovery Tools Truth
We can often endure an extra pound of pain far more easily than we can suffer the withdrawal of an ounce of accustomed pleasure.
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Pain Suffering Withdrawal
Ignorance per se is not nearly as dangerous as ignorance of ignorance.
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Dangerous Ignorance Nearly
Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
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Ideas Men Thinking
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
The best combination of parents consists of a father who is gentle beneath his firmness, and a mother who is firm beneath her gentleness.
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Father Mother Parent
Never let your fears be the boundaries of your dreams. Happiness is a direction, not a place.
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Boundaries Dream Dreams Follow
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
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
Why do most Americans look up to education and down upon educated people?
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Educated Looks People
Good teaching must be slow enough so that it is not confusing, and fast enough so that it is not boring.
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Confusing Teacher Teaching
The loner may be respected, but he is always resented by his colleagues, for he seems to be passing a critical judgment on them, when he may be simply making a limiting statement about himself.
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Loner May Solitude
There are always too many Democratic congressmen, too many Republican congressmen, and never enough U.S. congressmen.
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Democracy Republican Voting
And most of the failures in parent-child relationships, from my observation, begin when the child begins to acquire a mind and a will of its own, to make independent decisions and to question the omnipotence or the wisdom of the parent.
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Children Independent
There’s no point in burying a hatchet if you’re going to put up a marker on the site.
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Forgiveness Heartbroken Site
The public examination of homosexuality in our contemporary life is still so coated with distasteful moral connotations that even a reviewer is bound to wonder uneasily why he was selected to evaluate a book on the subject.
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Children Coated Examination Father Review Team

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