When I hear somebody sigh, ‘Life is hard,’ I am always tempted to ask, ‘Compared to what?’
SYDNEY J. HARRISEnemies, as well as lovers, come to resemble each other over a period of time.
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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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Almost every man looks more so in a belted trench coat.
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Real loneliness consists not in being alone, but in being with the wrong person, in the suffocating darkness of a room in which no deep communication is possible.
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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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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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Many people feel “guilty” about things they shouldn’t feel guilty about, in order to shut out feelings of guilt about things they should feel guilty about.
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A winner knows how much he still has to learn, even when he is considered an expert by others; a loser wants to be considered an expert by others before he has learned enough to know how little he knows.
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Skepticism is not an end in itself; it is a tool for the discovery of truths.
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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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Love makes everything lovely; hate concentrates itself on the object of its hatred.
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There are always too many Democratic congressmen, too many Republican congressmen, and never enough U.S. congressmen.
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Agnosticism is a perfectly respectable and tenable philosophical position; it is not dogmatic and makes no pronouncements about the ultimate truths of the universe. It remains open to evidence and persuasion; lacking faith, it nevertheless does not deride faith.
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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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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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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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