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The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.

Sydney J. Harris

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 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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Character Refrain Secret Several Tests
An idealist believes the short run doesn’t count. A cynic believes the long run doesn’t matter.
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Inspirational Love Running
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
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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Always Done Loser Way
The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
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Education Mirror Purpose Whole Window
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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Believe Best Love Partner
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
No one should pay attention to a man delivering a lecture or a sermon on his “philosophy of life” until we know exactly how he treats his wife, his children, his neighbors, his friends, his subordinates and his enemies.
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Children Men Philosophy
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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Discomfort Middle Partisan
Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.
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Acceptance Assuming Tolerance
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
When we have “second thoughts” about something, our first thoughts don’t seem like thoughts at all – just feelings.
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Feelings Firsts Justice
Any philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs there.
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Discovery Ethics Philosophy
Love makes everything lovely; hate concentrates itself on the object of its hatred.
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Convcentarted Everything Hatred Love Object
Elitism is the slur directed at merit by mediocrity.
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Acceptance Mediocrity Merit

The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.

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