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A winner rebukes and forgives a loser is too timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive.
Sydney J. Harris
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Sydney J. Harris
Age: 69 †
Born: 1917
Born: September 14
Died: 1986
Died: December 8
Journalist
London
England
Sydney Harris
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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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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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Perseverance is the most overrated of traits, if it is unaccompanied by talent beating your head against a wall is more likely to produce a concussion in the head than a hole in the wall.
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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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We must become masters of our own actions and attitudes. To let another person determine whether we will be rude or gracious, elated or depressed is to give control of ourselves. The only true possession is self possession.
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If the devil could be persuaded to write a bible, he would title it, You Only Live Once.
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Why do so many people yearn for an eternal life when they don't even know what to do with themselves in this brief one?
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Ancient boundaries are meaningless, except for political purposes old divisions of clan and tribe are sentimental remnants of the pre-atomic age neither creed nor color nor place of origin is relevant to the realities of modern power to utterly seek and destroy.
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As long as there are human beings, there will be the idea of brotherhood -- and an almost total inability to practice it.
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If you cannot endure to be thought in the wrong, you will begin to do terrible things to make the wrong appear right.
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Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.
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Most people are mirrors, reflecting the moods and emotions of the times few are windows, bringing light to bear on the dark corners where troubles fester. The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
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An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run.
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