Love makes everything lovely; hate concentrates itself on the object of its hatred.
SYDNEY J. HARRISWhen I hear somebody sigh, ‘Life is hard,’ I am always tempted to ask, ‘Compared to what?’
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An idealist believes the short run doesn’t count. A cynic believes the long run doesn’t matter.
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The art of living consists in knowing which impulses to obey and which must be made to obey.
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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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Happiness is a direction, not a place.
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Many people feel “guilty” about things they shouldn’t feel guilty about, in order to shut out feelings of guilt about things they should feel guilty about.
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Good teaching must be slow enough so that it is not confusing, and fast enough so that it is not boring.
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The best combination of parents consists of a father who is gentle beneath his firmness, and a mother who is firm beneath her gentleness.
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Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.
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Those who imagine that the world is against them have generally conspired to make it true.
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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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Skepticism is not an end in itself; it is a tool for the discovery of truths.
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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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Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
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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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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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