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Marriages we regard as the happiest are those in which each of the partners believes he or she got the best of it.

Sydney J. Harris

The greatest enemy of progress is not stagnation, but false progress.
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Enemy Progress Stagnation
Marriages 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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Believe Best Love Partner
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
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
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
Many married couples separate because they quarrel incessantly, but just as many separate because they were never honest enough or courageous enough to quarrel when they should have.
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Couple Couples Divorce Quarrel Separate
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
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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Dislike Someone Independence Independent
If you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the problem, but the perpetual human predicament is that the answer soon poses its own problems.
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Answers Predicaments Problem
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
Patriotism is proud of a country’s virtues and eager to correct its deficiencies; it also acknowledges the legitimate patriotism of other countries, with their own specific virtues.
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Country Humility Legitimate Pride
The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
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Education Mirror Purpose Whole Window
As the horsepower in modern automobiles steadily rises, the congestion of traffic steadily lowers the average possible speed of your car. This is known as Progress.
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Average Car Progress
Every morning I take out my bankbook, stare at it, shudder – and turn quickly to my typewriter.
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Morning Staring Typewriters
Skepticism is not an end in itself; it is a tool for the discovery of truths.
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Discovery Tools Truth
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

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