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Sydney J. Harris

Enemies, as well as lovers, come to resemble each other over a period of time.
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Enemy Lovers Time Love
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
An idealist believes the short run doesn’t count. A cynic believes the long run doesn’t matter.
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Inspirational Love Running
Why do most Americans look up to education and down upon educated people?
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Educated Looks People
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
Almost every man looks more so in a belted trench coat.
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Coats Looks Men
Making out an invitation list for a party brings out the worst in everyone. It is then that our most ruthless estimates of the people we know come into play.
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Estimated Party People Play Worst
Men make counterfeit money; in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men.
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Cases Men Money
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
All significant achievement comes from daring from experiment from the willingness to risk failure.
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Achievement Failure Risk
The world has always been betrayed by decent men with bad ideals.
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Betrayed Men World
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
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
We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we have stopped saying ‘It got lost,’ and say, ‘I lost it.’
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Education Parenting Responsibility
Skepticism is not an end in itself; it is a tool for the discovery of truths.
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Discovery Tools Truth
More trouble is caused in this world by indiscreet answers than by indiscreet questions.
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Answers Trouble World

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