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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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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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Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.
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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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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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