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Take away grievances from some people and you remove their reasons for living; most of us are nourished by hope, but a considerable minority get psychic nutrition from their resentments, and would waste away purposelessly without them.

Sydney J. Harris

The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
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Funny Time Witty
The greatest enemy of progress is not stagnation, but false progress.
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Enemy Progress Stagnation
And most of the failures in parent-child relationships, from my observation, begin when the child begins to acquire a mind and a will of its own, to make independent decisions and to question the omnipotence or the wisdom of the parent.
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Children Independent
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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Appalled Christ Enemy Jesus
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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Cynical May Men
The severest test of character is not so much the ability to keep a secret as it is, when the secret is finally out, to refrain from disclosing that you knew it all along.
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Character Refrain Secret Several Tests
If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?
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Anger Power Wisdom
A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive.
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Forgiveness Forgiving Loser
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
Those who imagine that the world is against them have generally conspired to make it true.
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Imagination Imagine World
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
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
Every rule in the book can be broken, except one – be who you are, and become all you were meant to be.
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Book Broken Effectiveness
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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Hands Philosophical Religious
Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time; what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better.
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Change Funny Love
The art of living consists in knowing which impulses to obey and which must be made to obey.
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Art Knowing Made

Take away grievances from some people and you remove their reasons for living; most of us are nourished by hope, but a considerable minority get psychic nutrition from their resentments, and would waste away purposelessly without them.

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Take away grievances from some people and you remove their reasons for living; most of us are nourished by hope, but a considerable minority get psychic nutrition from their resentments, and would waste away purposelessly without them.

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