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Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time; what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better.

Sydney J. Harris

Life is, if anything, the art of combination. Of discrimination. Of freely picking one’s own personal pattern out of a hundred choices. Not letting it be picked for you-either by the Establishment, or by the Rebels. Conformity of Hip is no better than Conformity of Square.
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Art Choices Squares
We may hate a person because he reminds us of someone we feared and disliked when younger; or because we see in him some gross caricature of what we find repugnant in ourself; or because he symbolizes an attitude that seems to threaten us.
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Fear Ourselves Person Someone Younger
Men make counterfeit money; in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men.
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Cases Men Money
Nobody really knows how smart or talented he is until he finds the incentives to use himself to the fullest. God has given us more than we know what to do with.
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Commodity Nobody Precious Really Talented
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
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
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
Any philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs there.
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Discovery Ethics Philosophy
More trouble is caused in this world by indiscreet answers than by indiscreet questions.
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Answers Trouble World
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
Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.
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Acceptance Assuming Tolerance
Many people know how to work hard; many others know how to play well; but the rarest talent in the world is the ability to introduce elements of playfulness into work, and to put some constructive labor into our leisure.
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Hard People Play Work
When we inform, we lead from strength; when we communicate, we lead from weakness-and it is precisely this confession of mortality that engages the ears, heads and hearts of those we want to enlist as allies in a common cause.
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Allies Heart Weakness
Skepticism is not an end in itself; it is a tool for the discovery of truths.
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Discovery Tools Truth
People who think they’re generous to a fault usually think that’s their only fault.
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Generosity People Thinking
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

Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time; what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better.

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