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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.
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
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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Those obsessed with health are not healthy the first requisite of good health is a certain calculated carelessness about oneself.
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No one should pay attention to a man delivering a lecture or a sermon on his philosophy of life until we know exactly how he treats his wife, his children, his neighbors, his friends, his subordinates and his enemies.
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The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, 'I was wrong'.
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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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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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Sincerity that thinks it is the sole possessor of the truth is a deadlier sin than hypocrisy, which knows better.
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A university is not, primarily, a place in which to learn how to make a living it is a place in which to learn how to be more fully a human being, how to draw upon one's resources, how to discipline the mind and expand the imagination how to make some sense out of the big world we will shortly be thrown into.
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Those who imagine that the world is against them have generally conspired to make it true.
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We can often endure an extra pound of pain far more easily than we can suffer the withdrawal of an ounce of accustomed pleasure.
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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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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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There's no point in burying a hatchet if you're going to put up a marker on the site.
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