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Sydney J Harris Inspirational Quotes (106)

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Gourmet: Usually little more than a glutton festooned with credit cards.
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The reason that truth is stranger than fiction is that fiction has to have a rational thread running through it in order to be believable, whereas reality may be totally irrational.
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This is a lesson mankind has not yet learned. We identify, and stratify, and treat persons largely on the basis of their accidental (physical) characteristics, which have no deeper meaning.
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Sometimes the best, and only effective, way to kill an idea is to put it into practice.
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Usually, if we hate, it is the shadow of the person that we hate, rather than the substance. We may hate a person because he reminds us of someone we feared and disliked when younger or because we see in him some gross caricature of what we find repugnant in ourself or because he symbolizes an attitude that seems to threaten us.
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We can often endure an extra pound of pain far more easily than we can suffer the withdrawal of an ounce of accustomed pleasure.
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Many married couples separate because they quarrel incessantly, but just as many separate because they were never honest enough or courageous enough to quarrel when they should have.
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Elitism is the slur directed at merit by mediocrity.
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A winner rebukes and forgives a loser is too Forgiveness breaks the chain of causality because he who forgives you -- out of love -- takes upon himself the consequences of what you have done. Forgiveness, therefore, always entails a sacrifice.
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Good teaching must be slow enough so that it is not confusing, and fast enough so that it is not boring.
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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 art of living consists in knowing which impulses to obey and which must be made to obey.
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We believe what we want to believe, what we like to believe, what suits our prejudices and fuels our passions.
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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.
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The truest test of independent judgment is being able to dislike someone who admires us, and to admire someone who dislikes us.
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There are always too many Democratic congressmen, too many Republican congressmen, and never enough U.S. congressmen.
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Any philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs there.
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There is no such thing as an atrocity in warfare that is greater than the atrocity of warfare itself.
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All our efforts to attain immortality-by statesmanship, by conquest, by science or the arts-are equally vain in the long run, because the long run is longer than any of us can imagine.
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Terrorism is what we call the violence of the weak, and we condemn it war is what we call the violence of the strong, and we glorify it.
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Life is, if anything, the art of combination. Of discrimination. Of freely picking one's own personal pattern out of a hundred choices. Not letting it be picked for you—either by the Establishment, or by the Rebels. Conformity of Hip is no better than Conformity of Square.
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More trouble is caused in this world by indiscreet answers than by indiscreet questions.
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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.
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We evaluate others with a Godlike justice, but we want them to evaluate us with a Godlike compassion.
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