A loser says that’s the way it’s always been done. A winner says there ought to be a better way.
SYDNEY J. HARRISA cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, his is also one who is permanently disappointed in the future.
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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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It’s odd, and a little unsettling, to reflect upon the fact that English is the only major language in which “I” is capitalized; in many other languages “You” is capitalized and the “i” is lower case.” —
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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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If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?
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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.
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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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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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We may hate a person because he reminds us of someone we feared and disliked when younger; or because we see in him some gross caricature of what we find repugnant in ourself; or because he symbolizes an attitude that seems to threaten us.
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The best thing you can give children, next to good habits, are good memories.
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There is no such thing as an “atrocity” in warfare that is greater than the atrocity of warfare itself.
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Life is, if anything, the art of combination. Of discrimination. Of freely picking one’s own personal pattern out of a hundred choices. Not letting it be picked for you-either by the Establishment, or by the Rebels. Conformity of Hip is no better than Conformity of Square.
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The loner may be respected, but he is always resented by his colleagues, for he seems to be passing a critical judgment on them, when he may be simply making a limiting statement about himself.
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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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The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
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A man will lay down his life for his friend but will not sacrifice his eardrums.
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