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Sydney J. Harris Quotes: 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.
         

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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The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, 'I was wrong'.



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