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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.
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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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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Never let your fears be the boundaries of your dreams. Happiness is a direction, not a place.
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Those obsessed with health are not healthy the first requisite of good health is a certain calculated carelessness about oneself.
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Those who imagine that the world is against them have generally conspired to make it true.
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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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The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure.
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All our efforts to attain immortality-by statesmanship, by conquest, by science or the arts-are equally vain in the long run, because the long run is longer than any of us can imagine.
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