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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
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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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No one should pay attention to a man delivering a lecture or a sermon on his philosophy of life until we know exactly how he treats his wife, his children, his neighbors, his friends, his subordinates and his enemies.
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Skepticism is not an end in itself it is a tool for the discovery of truths.
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Nobody can misunderstand a child as much as his own parents.
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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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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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Elitism is the slur directed at merit by mediocrity.
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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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Those who imagine that the world is against them have generally conspired to make it true.
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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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Filth is always a sign of weakness - in the mouth of the user and in the mind of the writer.
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When a baseball player makes an error, it goes into the record and is published. How many of us could stand this sort of daily scrutiny?
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The severest test of character is not so much the ability to keep a secret as it is, when the secret is finally out, to refrain from disclosing that you knew it all along.
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And most of the failures in parent-child relationships, from my observation, begin when the child begins to acquire a mind and a will of its own, to make independent decisions and to question the omnipotence or the wisdom of the parent.
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The greatest enemy of progress is not stagnation, but false progress.
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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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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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Genealogy: A perverse preoccupation of those who seek to demonstrate that their forebears were better people than they are.
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Many a secret that cannot be pried out by curiosity can be drawn out by indifference.
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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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