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A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, his is also one who is permanently disappointed in the future.

Sydney J. Harris

A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive.
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Forgiveness Forgiving Loser
We truly possess only what we are able to renounce; otherwise, we are simply possessed by our possessions.
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Able Possession Renounce
There is no such thing as an “atrocity” in warfare that is greater than the atrocity of warfare itself.
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Atrocities Greater Warfare
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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Believe Insanity Mean
The truest test of independent judgment is being able to dislike someone who admires us, and to admire someone who dislikes us.
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Dislike Someone Independence Independent
Being yourself is not remaining what you were, or being satisfied with what you are. It is the point of departure and far from the goal.
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Being Departure Goat Satisfied Yourself
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
More trouble is caused in this world by indiscreet answers than by indiscreet questions.
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Answers Trouble World
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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College Education Mind
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
The best thing you can give children, next to good habits, are good memories.
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Children Memories Mom
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
Real loneliness consists not in being alone, but in being with the wrong person, in the suffocating darkness of a room in which no deep communication is possible.
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Communication Loneliness Real
And nobody is more aware of this difference (although unconsciously) than a child. Only an authentic person can evoke a good response in the core of the other person; only person is resonant to person.
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Core Evoke Only Person Resonate
Honesty consists of the unwillingness to lie to others; maturity, which is equally hard to attain, consists of the unwillingness to lie to oneself.
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Attain Honesty Lying Maturity Truth
Middle 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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Bother Funny Two Witty

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