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Many a secret that cannot be pried out by curiosity can be drawn out by indifference.
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
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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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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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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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When you run into someone who is disagreeable to others, you may be sure he is uncomfortable with himself the amount of pain we inflict upon others is directly proportional to the amount we feel within us.
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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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Genealogy: A perverse preoccupation of those who seek to demonstrate that their forebears were better people than they are.
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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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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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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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Never take the advice of someone who has not had your kind of trouble.
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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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