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

Sydney J. Harris

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
We can often endure an extra pound of pain far more easily than we can suffer the withdrawal of an ounce of accustomed pleasure.
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Pain Suffering Withdrawal
The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
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Education Mirror Purpose Whole Window
And to assert defensively at the outset that he is happily married, the father of four children and the one-time adornment of his college boxing, track and tennis teams.
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Assert Children Defensively Terms Track
If you cannot endure to be thought in the wrong, you will begin to do terrible things to make the wrong appear right.
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Acceptance Endure Terrible
We evaluate others with a Godlike justice, but we want them to evaluate us with a Godlike compassion.
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Compassion Judging Justice
The public examination of homosexuality in our contemporary life is still so coated with distasteful moral connotations that even a reviewer is bound to wonder uneasily why he was selected to evaluate a book on the subject.
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Children Coated Examination Father Review Team
Elitism is the slur directed at merit by mediocrity.
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Acceptance Mediocrity Merit
If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?
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Anger Power Wisdom
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
All significant achievement comes from daring from experiment from the willingness to risk failure.
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Achievement Failure Risk
Enemies, as well as lovers, come to resemble each other over a period of time.
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Enemy Lovers Time Love
The best thing you can give children, next to good habits, are good memories.
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Children Memories Mom
Between the semi-educated, who offer simplistic answers to complex questions, and the overeducated, who offer complicated answers to simple questions, it is a wonder that any questions get satisfactorily answered at all.
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Answers Simple Wonder
The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
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Funny Time Witty
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

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