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If the devil could be persuaded to write a bible, he would title it, You Only Live Once.
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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Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.
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Elitism is the slur directed at merit by mediocrity.
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Many a secret that cannot be pried out by curiosity can be drawn out by indifference.
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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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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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Ancient boundaries are meaningless, except for political purposes old divisions of clan and tribe are sentimental remnants of the pre-atomic age neither creed nor color nor place of origin is relevant to the realities of modern power to utterly seek and destroy.
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