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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
Sydney Harris
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As long as there are human beings, there will be the idea of brotherhood -- and an almost total inability to practice it.
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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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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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Ignorance per se is not nearly as dangerous as ignorance of ignorance.
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There's no point in burying a hatchet if you're going to put up a marker on the site.
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Being yourself is not remaining what you were, or being satisfied with what you are. It is the point of departure and far from the goal.
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There are always too many Democratic congressmen, too many Republican congressmen, and never enough U.S. congressmen.
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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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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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It may be true that the weak will always be driven to the wall but it is the task of a just society to see that the wall is climbable.
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Many married couples separate because they quarrel incessantly, but just as many separate because they were never honest enough or courageous enough to quarrel when they should have.
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We evaluate others with a Godlike justice, but we want them to evaluate us with a Godlike compassion.
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All significant achievement comes from daring from experiment from the willingness to risk failure.
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A truly successful person knows how to overcome the past, use the present, and prepare for the future-but unless we can first surmount the past, we cannot effectively cope with either the present or the future.
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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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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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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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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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Much as a teacher may wince at the thought, he is also an entertainer—for unless he can hold his audience, he cannot really instruct or edify them.
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