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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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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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Filth is always a sign of weakness - in the mouth of the user and in the mind of the writer.
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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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The greatest enemy of progress is not stagnation, but false progress.
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Why are we willing to accept a new mathematical formula we don't understand as the product of a brilliant mind, while rejecting a new art form we don't understand as the product of a deranged mind?
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Genealogy: A perverse preoccupation of those who seek to demonstrate that their forebears were better people than they are.
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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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Men make counterfeit money in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men.
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Nothing is as easy to make as a promise this winter to do something next summer this is how commencement speakers are caught.
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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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Christianity is not a spiritual religion, like some religions of the east. It is an intensely practical religion, having its moral roots in the practicality of judaism. It was not designed to change the way men think or believe as much as to change the way they act.
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Somebody who never got over the embarrassing fact that he was born in bed with a lady.
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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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We truly possess only what we are able to renounce otherwise, we are simply possessed by our possessions.
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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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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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We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we have stopped saying 'It got lost,' and say, 'I lost it.'
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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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Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.
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