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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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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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All our efforts to attain immortality-by statesmanship, by conquest, by science or the arts-are equally vain in the long run, because the long run is longer than any of us can imagine.
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The founder of every creed from Jesus Christ to Karl Marx, would be appalled to return to earth and see what has been made of that creed, not by its enemies, but by its most devoted adherents.
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Skepticism is not an end in itself it is a tool for the discovery of truths.
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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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We must become masters of our own actions and attitudes. To let another person determine whether we will be rude or gracious, elated or depressed is to give control of ourselves. The only true possession is self possession.
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If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?
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Never take the advice of someone who has not had your kind of trouble.
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Confidence, once lost or betrayed, can never be restored again to the same measure and we learn too late in life that our acts of deception are irrevocable - they may be forgiven, but they cannot be forgotten by their victims.
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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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Gourmet: Usually little more than a glutton festooned with credit cards.
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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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Elitism is the slur directed at merit by mediocrity.
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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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If the devil could be persuaded to write a bible, he would title it, You Only Live Once.
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Parents - and teachers too - are woefully short-sighted when they try to protect the child from his mistakes, when they make the right answer more important than the quest for knowledge and good judgment. For what is not learned within one's self cannot be learned from another.
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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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We evaluate others with a Godlike justice, but we want them to evaluate us with a Godlike compassion.
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Enemies, as well as lovers, come to resemble each other over a period of time.
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Being yourself is not remaining what you were, or being satisfied with what you are. It is the point of departure and far from the goal.
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