A ‘penchant for telling the truth’ can cripple a candidates chances faster than being caught in flagrante delicto with the governor’s wife.
SYDNEY J. HARRISMiddle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, ‘Why not?’ and the other, ‘Why bother?’
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Enemies, as well as lovers, come to resemble each other over a period of time.
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Happiness is a direction, not a place.
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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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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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It is not only useless, it is harmful, to believe in oneself until one truly knows oneself. And to know oneself means to accept our moments of insanity, of eccentricity, of childishness and blindness.
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There’s no point in burying a hatchet if you’re going to put up a marker on the site.
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Almost every man looks more so in a belted trench coat.
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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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Love makes everything lovely; hate concentrates itself on the object of its hatred.
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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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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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Never let your fears be the boundaries of your dreams. Happiness is a direction, not a place.
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People who think they’re generous to a fault usually think that’s their only fault.
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The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one’s mind a pleasant place in which to spend one’s leisure.
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The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
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