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

Sydney J. Harris

Love makes everything lovely; hate concentrates itself on the object of its hatred.
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Convcentarted Everything Hatred Love Object
An idealist believes the short run doesn’t count. A cynic believes the long run doesn’t matter.
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Inspirational Love Running
The art of living consists in knowing which impulses to obey and which must be made to obey.
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Art Knowing Made
Usually, if we hate, it is the shadow of the person that we hate, rather than the substance.
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Attitude Hate Shadow
Happiness is a direction, not a place.
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Being Direction Happiness Happy Place
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
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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Confusing Teacher Teaching
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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Father Mother Parent
Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.
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Brain Knowledge One Small
Those who imagine that the world is against them have generally conspired to make it true.
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Imagination Imagine World
There are always too many Democratic congressmen, too many Republican congressmen, and never enough U.S. congressmen.
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Democracy Republican Voting
Skepticism is not an end in itself; it is a tool for the discovery of truths.
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Discovery Tools Truth
There’s no point in burying a hatchet if you’re going to put up a marker on the site.
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Forgiveness Heartbroken Site
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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Ideas Men Thinking
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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Light Next Optimist Tunnels
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

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

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