The art of living consists in knowing which impulses to obey and which must be made to obey.
SYDNEY J. HARRISThose who imagine that the world is against them have generally conspired to make it true.
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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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The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
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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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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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We evaluate others with a Godlike justice, but we want them to evaluate us with a Godlike compassion.
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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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Elitism is the slur directed at merit by mediocrity.
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If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?
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There is no such thing as an “atrocity” in warfare that is greater than the atrocity of warfare itself.
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All significant achievement comes from daring from experiment from the willingness to risk failure.
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Enemies, as well as lovers, come to resemble each other over a period of time.
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The best thing you can give children, next to good habits, are good memories.
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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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The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
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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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