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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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Sydney J. Harris
Age: 69 †
Born: 1917
Born: September 14
Died: 1986
Died: December 8
Journalist
London
England
Sydney Harris
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Departure
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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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A university is not, primarily, a place in which to learn how to make a living it is a place in which to learn how to be more fully a human being, how to draw upon one's resources, how to discipline the mind and expand the imagination how to make some sense out of the big world we will shortly be thrown into.
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Norbert Blei is a writer the way people used to be troubadours and minstrels, celebrating what he has seen and heart and felt in a deceptively simple style reminiscent of the early Sherwood Anderson. . . . Like Anderson, he is a lover, and his affection invests his writing with a singular charm.
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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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The difference between faith and superstition is that the first uses reason to go as far as it can, and then makes the jump the second shuns reason entirely — which is why superstition is not the ally, but the enemy, of true religion.
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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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More trouble is caused in this world by indiscreet answers than by indiscreet questions.
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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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A winner rebukes and forgives a loser is too timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive.
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If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem, but the perpetual human predicament is that the answer soon poses its own problems.
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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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People decline invitations when they are indisposed physically, and I wish they would do likewise when they feel indisposed emotionally. A person has no more right to attend a party with a head full of venom than with a throat full of virus.
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Character is something you forge for yourself temperament is something you are born with and can only slightly modify.
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Man's unique agony as a species consists in his perpetual conflict between the desire to stand out and the need to blend in.
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Enemies, as well as lovers, come to resemble each other over a period of time.
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Why are we willing to accept a new mathematical formula we don't understand as the product of a brilliant mind, while rejecting a new art form we don't understand as the product of a deranged mind?
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Nothing is as easy to make as a promise this winter to do something next summer this is how commencement speakers are caught.
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Parents - and teachers too - are woefully short-sighted when they try to protect the child from his mistakes, when they make the right answer more important than the quest for knowledge and good judgment. For what is not learned within one's self cannot be learned from another.
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Ignorance per se is not nearly as dangerous as ignorance of ignorance.
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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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