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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.
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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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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As the horsepower in modern automobiles steadily rises, the congestion of traffic steadily lowers the average possible speed of your car. This is known as Progress.
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It may be true that the weak will always be driven to the wall but it is the task of a just society to see that the wall is climbable.
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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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Enemies, as well as lovers, come to resemble each other over a period of time.
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A winner rebukes and forgives a loser is too Forgiveness breaks the chain of causality because he who forgives you -- out of love -- takes upon himself the consequences of what you have done. Forgiveness, therefore, always entails a sacrifice.
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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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It's surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely determined by their feelings toward themselves, and if you're not comfortable within yourself, you can't be comfortable with others.
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Life is, if anything, the art of combination. Of discrimination. Of freely picking one's own personal pattern out of a hundred choices. Not letting it be picked for you—either by the Establishment, or by the Rebels. Conformity of Hip is no better than Conformity of Square.
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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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The art of living consists in knowing which impulses to obey and which must be made to obey.
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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.
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A famously wise old man in a village was once asked how he came by his wisdom. I got it from my good judgment, he answered. And where did his good judgment come from? I got it from my bad judgment.
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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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If the devil could be persuaded to write a bible, he would title it, You Only Live Once.
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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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It is not only useless, it is harmful, to believe in oneself until one truly knows oneself. And to know oneself means to accept our moments of insanity, of eccentricity, of childishness and blindness.
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Character is something you forge for yourself temperament is something you are born with and can only slightly modify.
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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.
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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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