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When you run into someone who is disagreeable to others, you may be sure he is uncomfortable with himself; the amount of pain we inflict upon others is directly proportional to the amount we feel within us. ↗

— Sydney J. Harris

#directly #directly proportional #disagreeable #feel #himself

Ninety per cent 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 - so how can we know anyone else? ↗

— Sydney J. Harris

#anyone #cent #comes #complete #else

In time of war steamships and improved arms are the most important things. ↗

— Townsend Harris

#important #important things #improved #most #steamships

It will be quite satisfactory if you open them gradually, as the circumstances may require; but the President assures you that this will not be the case if you make a treaty with England first. ↗

— Townsend Harris

#case #circumstances #england #first #gradually

Since the invention of steamships distant countries have become like those that are near at hand. ↗

— Townsend Harris

#countries #distant #hand #invention #like

We were talking about the space between us all and the people who hide themselves behind a wall of illusion. Never glimpse the truth - then it's far too late when they pass away. ↗

— George Harrison

#away #behind #between #far #glimpse

But I always held my music up and protected it from compromise. So I just do it for my friends. I've written hundreds of songs, and I'm sure I have a few albums worth of songs. ↗

— Gregory Harrison

#always #compromise #few #friends #held

I learned to play guitar at a young age and converted poems and stuff that I had written to songs. ↗

— Gregory Harrison

#converted #guitar #had #i #learned

I love to sing and I do think that my strength as a singer is... I think I have a voice that is certainly sufficient under most any circumstances... but I think my strength is that I really am an actor and I really do have to own what I am saying. ↗

— Gregory Harrison

#am #any #certainly #circumstances #i

I wonder what kind of lives they will have built for themselves when they turn 45 and can't really have any connection with people because they are so used to fleeting sexual. ↗

— Randy Harrison

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