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Men make counterfeit money in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men.
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
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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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Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage.
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By the time a man asks you for advice, he has generally made up his mind what he wants to do, and is looking for confirmation rather than counseling.
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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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American parents, on the whole, do not want their sons to be artisans or craftsmen, but business or professional people. As a result, millions of youngsters are being prepared for careers they have little aptitude for - and little interest in except for dubious prestige.
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Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.
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Never take the advice of someone who has not had your kind of trouble.
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As the horsepower in modern automobiles steadily rises, the congestion of traffic steadily lowers the average possible speed of your car. This is known as Progress.
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Self-discipline without talent can often achieve astounding results, whereas talent without self-discipline inevitably dooms itself to failure.
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It's surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely determined by their feelings toward themselves, and if you're not comfortable within yourself, you can't be comfortable with others.
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The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure.
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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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Those who imagine that the world is against them have generally conspired to make it true.
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It may be true that the weak will always be driven to the wall but it is the task of a just society to see that the wall is climbable.
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Real loneliness consists not in being alone, but in being with the wrong person, in the suffocating darkness of a room in which no deep communication is possible.
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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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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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If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem, but the perpetual human predicament is that the answer soon poses its own problems.
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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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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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