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Sydney J. Harris

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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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Nutshell
Brevity
Belongs
Ethics
Discovery
Philosophy
Moral

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Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better.
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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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When we inform, we lead from strength when we communicate, we lead from weakness—and it is precisely this confession of mortality that engages the ears, heads and hearts of those we want to enlist as allies in a common cause.
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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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As WArden Lawes once said of convicts, no man can be called a failure until he has tried something he really likes, and fails at it.
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Men make counterfeit money in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men.
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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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If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?
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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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If you cannot endure to be thought in the wrong, you will begin to do terrible things to make the wrong appear right.
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Western civilization has not yet learned the lesson that the energy we expend in 'getting things done' is less important than the moral strength it takes to decide what is worth doing and what is right to do.
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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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Ninety per cent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves - so how can we know anyone else?
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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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Never let your fears be the boundaries of your dreams. Happiness is a direction, not a place.
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The greatest enemy of progress is not stagnation, but false progress.
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Those who imagine that the world is against them have generally conspired to make it true.
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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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We evaluate others with a Godlike justice, but we want them to evaluate us with a Godlike compassion.
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Enemies, as well as lovers, come to resemble each other over a period of time.
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