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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
Sydney Harris
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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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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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Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.
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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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Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.
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As WArden Lawes once said of convicts, no man can be called a failure until he has tried something he really likes, and fails at it.
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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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A winner rebukes and forgives a loser is too Forgiveness breaks the chain of causality because he who forgives you -- out of love -- takes upon himself the consequences of what you have done. Forgiveness, therefore, always entails a sacrifice.
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