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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 best thing you can give children, next to good habits, are good memories.
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Children Memories Mom
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
The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.
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Math Real Technology
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 greatest enemy of progress is not stagnation, but false progress.
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Enemy Progress Stagnation
The pessimist sees only the tunnel; the optimist sees the light at the end of the tunnel; the realist sees the tunnel and the light – and the next tunnel.
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Light Next Optimist Tunnels
The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
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Education Mirror Purpose Whole Window
Almost every man looks more so in a belted trench coat.
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Coats Looks Men
Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, ‘Why not?’ and the other, ‘Why bother?’
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Bother Funny Two Witty
Every morning I take out my bankbook, stare at it, shudder – and turn quickly to my typewriter.
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Morning Staring Typewriters
Man’s unique agony as a species consists in his perpetual conflict between the desire to stand out and the need to blend in.
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Men Unique War
Skepticism is not an end in itself; it is a tool for the discovery of truths.
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Discovery Tools Truth
Men make counterfeit money; in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men.
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Cases Men Money
It’s surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely determined by their feelings toward themselves, and if you’re not comfortable within yourself, you can’t be comfortable with others.
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Confidence Relationship Self Esteem
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 most important thing in an argument, next to being right, is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent, so that he can gracefully swing over to your side without too much apparent loss of face.
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Appreciation Loss Swing

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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