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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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The founder of every creed from Jesus Christ to Karl Marx, would be appalled to return to earth and see what has been made of that creed, not by its enemies, but by its most devoted adherents.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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All our efforts to attain immortality-by statesmanship, by conquest, by science or the arts-are equally vain in the long run, because the long run is longer than any of us can imagine.
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Why do so many people yearn for an eternal life when they don't even know what to do with themselves in this brief one?
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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 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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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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We truly possess only what we are able to renounce otherwise, we are simply possessed by our possessions.
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