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Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody. - Benjamin Franklin If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. - Mother Teresa Politics is more dangerous than war, for in war you are only killed once. - Winston Churchill It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it's the parts that I do understand. - Mark Twain Children are the world's most valuable resource and its best hope for the future. - John F. Kennedy Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing. - Winston Churchill

The lusts of the flesh can be gratified anywhere; it is not this sort of licence that distinguishes New York. It is, rather, a lust of the total ego for recognition, even for eminence. More than elsewhere, everybody here wants to be Somebody.

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The true test of independent judgement is being able to dislike someone who admires us.

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The two words 'information' and 'communication' are often used interchangeably, but they signify quite different things. Information is giving out; communication is getting through.

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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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There's no point in burying a hatchet if you're going to put up a marker on the site.

- Sydney J. Harris | Forgiveness Quotes

People who won't help others in trouble "because they got into trouble through their own fault" would probably not throw a lifeline to a drowning man until they learned whether he fell in through his own fault or not.

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Ninety percent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves.

- Sydney J. Harris | Self-Knowledge Quotes

We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until... we have stopped saying "It got lost," and say "I lost it."

- Sydney J. Harris | Self-Reliance Quotes

Many persons of high intelligence have notoriously poor judgement.

- Sydney J. Harris | Decisions Quotes

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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