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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'.
Sydney J. Harris
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Sydney J. Harris
Age: 69 †
Born: 1917
Born: September 14
Died: 1986
Died: December 8
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London
England
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Between the semi-educated, who offer simplistic answers to complex questions, and the overeducated, who offer complicated answers to simple questions, it is a wonder that any questions get satisfactorily answered at all.
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The greatest enemy of progress is not stagnation, but false progress.
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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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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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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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Those obsessed with health are not healthy the first requisite of good health is a certain calculated carelessness about oneself.
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Character is something you forge for yourself temperament is something you are born with and can only slightly modify.
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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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We believe what we want to believe, what we like to believe, what suits our prejudices and fuels our passions.
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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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Ignorance per se is not nearly as dangerous as ignorance of ignorance.
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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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The severest test of character is not so much the ability to keep a secret as it is, when the secret is finally out, to refrain from disclosing that you knew it all along.
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