More trouble is caused in this world by indiscreet answers than by indiscreet questions.
SYDNEY J. HARRISMarriages we regard as the happiest are those in which each of the partners believes he or she got the best of it.
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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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We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we have stopped saying ‘It got lost,’ and say, ‘I lost it.’
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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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By the time a man asks you for advice, he has generally made up his mind what he wants to do, and is looking for confirmation rather than counseling.
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We truly possess only what we are able to renounce; otherwise, we are simply possessed by our possessions.
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Love makes everything lovely; hate concentrates itself on the object of its hatred.
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Elitism is the slur directed at merit by mediocrity.
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A man will lay down his life for his friend but will not sacrifice his eardrums.
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Atheism, on the other hand, is as unyielding and dogmatic about religious belief as true believers are about heathens. It tries to use reason to demolish a structure that is not built upon reason.
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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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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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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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We evaluate others with a Godlike justice, but we want them to evaluate us with a Godlike compassion.
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Why do most Americans look up to education and down upon educated people?
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The truest test of independent judgment is being able to dislike someone who admires us, and to admire someone who dislikes us.
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