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When I hear somebody sigh, ‘Life is hard,’ I am always tempted to ask, ‘Compared to what?
― Sydney J. Harris
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Somebody
Tempted
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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.
― Sydney J. Harris
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Solution
Perpetual
Human
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The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
― Sydney J. Harris
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Purpose
Mirrors
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When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?
― Sydney J. Harris
Sydney J. Harris
Somebody
Hard
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The time to relax is when you don't have time for it.
― Sydney J. Harris
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Relax
Time
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The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.
― Sydney J. Harris
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Danger
Computers
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The greatest enemy of progress is not stagnation, but false progress.
― Sydney J. Harris
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Greatest
Stagnation
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Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
― Sydney J. Harris
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Nobody
Amusingly
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A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive.
― Sydney J. Harris
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Winner
Forgives
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If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?
― Sydney J. Harris
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Power
Indicate
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The most important thing in an argument, next to being right, is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent, so that he can gracefully swing over to your side without too much apparent loss of face.
― Sydney J. Harris
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Argument
Escape
Apparent
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Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity; yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage.
― Sydney J. Harris
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Foolish
Automatically
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At age 20, we worry about what others think of us. At age 40, we don't care what they think of us. At age 60, we discover they haven't been thinking of us at all.
― Ann Landers
Funny
Uplifting
Retirement
Ann Landers
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In the end, it's not what you do for your children but what you've taught them to do for themselves.
― Ann Landers
Inspirational
Children
WiseParents
Ann Landers
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Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
― Ann Landers
Inspirational
Motivational
Success
Ann Landers
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Maturity is the ability to live in peace with that which we cannot change.
― Ann Landers
Kindness
Maturity
Thoughtful
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Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.
― Ann Landers
Love
Friendship
Forgiveness
Ann Landers
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Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.
― Ann Landers
Inspirational
Motivational
Relationship
Ann Landers
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Know yourself. Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.
― Ann Landers
Dog
Witty
Cat
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It is a mark of a superior mind to be able to disagree without being disagreeable.
― Ann Landers
Mind
Able
Conflict
Ann Landers