#tho

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

#argument #being #escape #face #gracefully

When we have 'second thoughts' about something, our first thoughts don't seem like thoughts at all - just feelings. ↗

— Sydney J. Harris

#feelings #first #just #like #our

If you make a treaty first with the United States and settle the matter of the opium trade, England cannot change this, though she should desire to do so. ↗

— Townsend Harris

#change #desire #england #first #make

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

— Townsend Harris

#countries #distant #hand #invention #like

The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good. ↗

— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

#evil #good #good and evil #lesser #moral

Try to realize it's all within yourself no one else can make you change, and to see you're only very small and life flows on within you and without you. ↗

— George Harrison

#else #flows #life #make #only

The Beatles will exist without us. ↗

— George Harrison

#exist #us #will #without

I've become increasingly confidant in following intuitions ahead of thoughts as I produce more records. ↗

— Jerry Harrison

#become #confidant #following #i #increasingly

I thought, frankly, that it would be more pleasant to write a memoir than it was. ↗

— Jim Harrison

#i #memoir #more #pleasant #than

I've never felt influenced by Ernest Hemingway though I suppose there is something inevitable there. ↗