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When I hear somebody sigh, ‘Life is hard,’ I am always tempted to ask, ‘Compared to what?’

Sydney J. Harris

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
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.
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Estimated Party People Play Worst
A university is not, primarily, a place in which to learn how to make a living; it is a place in which to learn how to be more fully a human being, how to draw upon one’s resources, how to discipline the mind and expand the imagination; how to make some sense out of the big world we will shortly be thrown into.
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Discipline Learning Life
Almost every man looks more so in a belted trench coat.
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Coats Looks Men
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
Any philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs there.
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Discovery Ethics Philosophy
This is a lesson mankind has not yet learned. We identify, and stratify, and treat persons largely on the basis of their accidental (physical) characteristics, which have no deeper meaning.
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Characteristics Lessons Treats
The greatest enemy of progress is not stagnation, but false progress.
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Enemy Progress Stagnation
You may be sure that when a man begins to call himself a realist he is preparing to do something that he is secretly ashamed of doing.
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Cynical May Men
Elitism is the slur directed at merit by mediocrity.
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Acceptance Mediocrity Merit
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
What is much harder to handle is the sense that you have to live up to the mark someone else has set for you. The grades become too important, the competition too frantic, the fear of disappointing those who believe in you turns into an overwhelming nightmare.
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Believe Boys Parent
Why do most Americans look up to education and down upon educated people?
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Educated Looks People
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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Feelings Order People
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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Loner May Solitude
Love makes everything lovely; hate concentrates itself on the object of its hatred.
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Convcentarted Everything Hatred Love Object

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