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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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History repeats itself, but in such cunning disguise that we never detect the resemblance until the damage is done.



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'.

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



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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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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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