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Those who imagine that the world is against them have generally conspired to make it true.

Sydney J. Harris

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
Why do most Americans look up to education and down upon educated people?
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Educated Looks People
People who think they’re generous to a fault usually think that’s their only fault.
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Generosity People Thinking
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
Time is love, above all else. It is the most precious commodity in the world and should be lavished on those we care most about.
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Care Commodity Precious Time 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
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
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 founder of every creed from Jesus Christ to Karl Marx, would be appalled to return to earth and see what has been made of that creed, not by its enemies, but by its most devoted adherents.
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Appalled Christ Enemy Jesus
Enemies, as well as lovers, come to resemble each other over a period of time.
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Enemy Lovers Time Love
The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.
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Math Real Technology
Almost every man looks more so in a belted trench coat.
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Coats Looks Men
The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
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Education Mirror Purpose Whole Window
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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English Facts Language Littles Unsetting
Elitism is the slur directed at merit by mediocrity.
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Acceptance Mediocrity Merit
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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Children Men Philosophy

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