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The art of living consists in knowing which impulses to obey and which must be made to obey.
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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An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run.
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When you run into someone who is disagreeable to others, you may be sure he is uncomfortable with himself the amount of pain we inflict upon others is directly proportional to the amount we feel within us.
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Good teaching must be slow enough so that it is not confusing, and fast enough so that it is not boring.
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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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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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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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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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