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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
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Sydney Harris
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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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Many married couples separate because they quarrel incessantly, but just as many separate because they were never honest enough or courageous enough to quarrel when they should have.
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God cannot be solemn, or he would not have blessed man with the incalculable gift of laughter.
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Why do so many people yearn for an eternal life when they don't even know what to do with themselves in this brief one?
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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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Sincerity that thinks it is the sole possessor of the truth is a deadlier sin than hypocrisy, which knows better.
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Maturity begins when we're content to feel we're right about something without feeling the necessity to prove someone else wrong.
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As long as there are human beings, there will be the idea of brotherhood -- and an almost total inability to practice it.
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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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As WArden Lawes once said of convicts, no man can be called a failure until he has tried something he really likes, and fails at it.
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The difference between faith and superstition is that the first uses reason to go as far as it can, and then makes the jump the second shuns reason entirely — which is why superstition is not the ally, but the enemy, of true religion.
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People decline invitations when they are indisposed physically, and I wish they would do likewise when they feel indisposed emotionally. A person has no more right to attend a party with a head full of venom than with a throat full of virus.
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The reason that truth is stranger than fiction is that fiction has to have a rational thread running through it in order to be believable, whereas reality may be totally irrational.
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A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, his is also one who is permanently disappointed in the future.
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Skepticism is not an end in itself it is a tool for the discovery of truths.
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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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We evaluate others with a Godlike justice, but we want them to evaluate us with a Godlike compassion.
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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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Those obsessed with health are not healthy the first requisite of good health is a certain calculated carelessness about oneself.
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Nuclear war is inevitable, says the pessimists Nuclear war is impossible, says the optimists Nuclear war is inevitable unless we make it impossible, says the realists.
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