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Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
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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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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Confidence, once lost or betrayed, can never be restored again to the same measure and we learn too late in life that our acts of deception are irrevocable - they may be forgiven, but they cannot be forgotten by their victims.
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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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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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Much as a teacher may wince at the thought, he is also an entertainer—for unless he can hold his audience, he cannot really instruct or edify them.
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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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Never let your fears be the boundaries of your dreams. Happiness is a direction, not a place.
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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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Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.
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Once we assuage our conscience by calling something a necessary evil, it begins to look more and more necessary and less and less evil.
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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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More trouble is caused in this world by indiscreet answers than by indiscreet questions.
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