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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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Sydney J. Harris
Age: 69 †
Born: 1917
Born: September 14
Died: 1986
Died: December 8
Journalist
London
England
Sydney Harris
Compassion
Justice
Others
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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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Elitism is the slur directed at merit by mediocrity.
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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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Sincerity that thinks it is the sole possessor of the truth is a deadlier sin than hypocrisy, which knows better.
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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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There is no such thing as an atrocity in warfare that is greater than the atrocity of warfare itself.
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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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The reason that truth is stranger than fiction is that fiction has to have a rational thread running through it in order to be believable, whereas reality may be totally irrational.
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Christianity is not a spiritual religion, like some religions of the east. It is an intensely practical religion, having its moral roots in the practicality of judaism. It was not designed to change the way men think or believe as much as to change the way they act.
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Ignorance per se is not nearly as dangerous as ignorance of ignorance.
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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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We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we have stopped saying 'It got lost,' and say, 'I lost it.'
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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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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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Men make counterfeit money in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men.
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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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Life is, if anything, the art of combination. Of discrimination. Of freely picking one's own personal pattern out of a hundred choices. Not letting it be picked for you—either by the Establishment, or by the Rebels. Conformity of Hip is no better than Conformity of Square.
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Once we assuage our conscience by calling something a necessary evil, it begins to look more and more necessary and less and less evil.
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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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