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Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.

Sydney J. Harris

As the horsepower in modern automobiles steadily rises, the congestion of traffic steadily lowers the average possible speed of your car. This is known as Progress.
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Average Car Progress
Patriotism is proud of a country’s virtues and eager to correct its deficiencies; it also acknowledges the legitimate patriotism of other countries, with their own specific virtues.
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Country Humility Legitimate Pride
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
Elitism is the slur directed at merit by mediocrity.
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Acceptance Mediocrity Merit
More trouble is caused in this world by indiscreet answers than by indiscreet questions.
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Answers Trouble World
Happiness is a direction, not a place.
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Being Direction Happiness Happy Place
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
Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.
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Brain Knowledge One Small
Every morning I take out my bankbook, stare at it, shudder – and turn quickly to my typewriter.
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Morning Staring Typewriters
The best thing you can give children, next to good habits, are good memories.
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Children Memories Mom
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
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
When I hear somebody sigh, ‘Life is hard,’ I am always tempted to ask, ‘Compared to what?’
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Funny Inspirational Life
Many married couples separate because they quarrel incessantly, but just as many separate because they were never honest enough or courageous enough to quarrel when they should have.
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Couple Couples Divorce Quarrel Separate
The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
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Funny Time Witty
If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?
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Anger Power Wisdom

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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