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.
SYDNEY J. HARRISThe loner may be respected, but he is always resented by his colleagues, for he seems to be passing a critical judgment on them, when he may be simply making a limiting statement about himself.
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Love makes everything lovely; hate concentrates itself on the object of its hatred.
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When I hear somebody sigh, ‘Life is hard,’ I am always tempted to ask, ‘Compared to what?’
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Men make counterfeit money; in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men.
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The founder of every creed from Jesus Christ to Karl Marx, would be appalled to return to earth and see what has been made of that creed, not by its enemies, but by its most devoted adherents.
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The loner may be respected, but he is always resented by his colleagues, for he seems to be passing a critical judgment on them, when he may be simply making a limiting statement about himself.
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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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Elitism is the slur directed at merit by mediocrity.
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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.
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Any philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs there.
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You may be sure that when a man begins to call himself a realist he is preparing to do something that he is secretly ashamed of doing.
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A man will lay down his life for his friend but will not sacrifice his eardrums.
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Skepticism is not an end in itself; it is a tool for the discovery of truths.
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A university is not, primarily, a place in which to learn how to make a living; it is a place in which to learn how to be more fully a human being, how to draw upon one’s resources, how to discipline the mind and expand the imagination; how to make some sense out of the big world we will shortly be thrown into.
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Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
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Usually, if we hate, it is the shadow of the person that we hate, rather than the substance.
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