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Somebody who never got over the embarrassing fact that he was born in bed with a lady.
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
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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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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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Genealogy: A perverse preoccupation of those who seek to demonstrate that their forebears were better people than they are.
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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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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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Many people know how to work hard many others know how to play well but the rarest talent in the world is the ability to introduce elements of playfulness into work, and to put some constructive labor into our leisure.
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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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Many people feel guilty about things they shouldn't feel guilty about, in order to shut out feelings of guilt about things they should feel guilty about.
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Any creed whose basic doctrines do not include respect for the creeds of others, is simply power politics masquerading as philosophy.
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Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.
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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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If the devil could be persuaded to write a bible, he would title it, You Only Live Once.
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Those obsessed with health are not healthy the first requisite of good health is a certain calculated carelessness about oneself.
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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.
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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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Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage.
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Why are we willing to accept a new mathematical formula we don't understand as the product of a brilliant mind, while rejecting a new art form we don't understand as the product of a deranged mind?
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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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