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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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Sydney J. Harris
Age: 69 †
Born: 1917
Born: September 14
Died: 1986
Died: December 8
Journalist
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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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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Character is something you forge for yourself temperament is something you are born with and can only slightly modify.
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Man's unique agony as a species consists in his perpetual conflict between the desire to stand out and the need to blend in.
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Ninety per cent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves - so how can we know anyone else?
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Norbert Blei is a writer the way people used to be troubadours and minstrels, celebrating what he has seen and heart and felt in a deceptively simple style reminiscent of the early Sherwood Anderson. . . . Like Anderson, he is a lover, and his affection invests his writing with a singular charm.
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Never let your fears be the boundaries of your dreams. Happiness is a direction, not a place.
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A winner rebukes and forgives a loser is too timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive.
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This is a lesson mankind has not yet learned. We identify, and stratify, and treat persons largely on the basis of their accidental (physical) characteristics, which have no deeper meaning.
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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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Filth is always a sign of weakness - in the mouth of the user and in the mind of the writer.
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Ancient boundaries are meaningless, except for political purposes old divisions of clan and tribe are sentimental remnants of the pre-atomic age neither creed nor color nor place of origin is relevant to the realities of modern power to utterly seek and destroy.
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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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Men make counterfeit money in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men.
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When we inform, we lead from strength when we communicate, we lead from weakness—and it is precisely this confession of mortality that engages the ears, heads and hearts of those we want to enlist as allies in a common cause.
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A truly successful person knows how to overcome the past, use the present, and prepare for the future-but unless we can first surmount the past, we cannot effectively cope with either the present or the future.
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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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Elitism is the slur directed at merit by mediocrity.
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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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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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