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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
Journalist
London
England
Sydney Harris
Caught
Summer
Promise
Easy
Next
Commencement
Nothing
June
Something
Speakers
Make
Winter
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The severest test of character is not so much the ability to keep a secret as it is, when the secret is finally out, to refrain from disclosing that you knew it all along.
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Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
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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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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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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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If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?
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Christianity is not a spiritual religion, like some religions of the east. It is an intensely practical religion, having its moral roots in the practicality of judaism. It was not designed to change the way men think or believe as much as to change the way they act.
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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 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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God cannot be solemn, or he would not have blessed man with the incalculable gift of laughter.
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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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