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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.

Sydney J. Harris

A ‘penchant for telling the truth’ can cripple a candidates chances faster than being caught in flagrante delicto with the governor’s wife.
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Chance Telling Truth Wife
There is no such thing as an “atrocity” in warfare that is greater than the atrocity of warfare itself.
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Atrocities Greater Warfare
Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves – so how can we know anyone else?
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Anyone Else Most Stranger
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
People who think they’re generous to a fault usually think that’s their only fault.
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Generosity People Thinking
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
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
Nothing is as easy to make as a promise this winter to do something next summer; this is how commencement speakers are caught.
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Keeping Promises Summer Winter
People decline invitations when they are “indisposed” physically, and I wish they would do likewise when they feel indisposed emotionally. A person has no more right to attend a party with a head full of venom than with a throat full of virus.
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Imposed Party People Physically Wish
Almost every man looks more so in a belted trench coat.
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Coats Looks Men
A loser says that’s the way it’s always been done. A winner says there ought to be a better way.
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Always Done Loser Way
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
Any philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs there.
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Discovery Ethics Philosophy
When I hear somebody sigh, ‘Life is hard,’ I am always tempted to ask, ‘Compared to what?’
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Funny Inspirational Life
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
Being yourself is not remaining what you were, or being satisfied with what you are. It is the point of departure and far from the goal.
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Being Departure Goat Satisfied Yourself

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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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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