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. 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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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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We evaluate others with a Godlike justice, but we want them to evaluate us with a Godlike compassion.
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We truly possess only what we are able to renounce; otherwise, we are simply possessed by our possessions.
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People decline invitations when they are “indisposed” physically, and I wish they would do likewise when they feel indisposed emotionally. A person has no more right to attend a party with a head full of venom than with a throat full of virus.
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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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Happiness is a direction, not a place.
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The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
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Those who imagine that the world is against them have generally conspired to make it true.
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Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time; what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better.
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Between the semi-educated, who offer simplistic answers to complex questions, and the overeducated, who offer complicated answers to simple questions, it is a wonder that any questions get satisfactorily answered at all.
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Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.
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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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Every 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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The greatest enemy of progress is not stagnation, but false progress.
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The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.
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