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Many married couples separate because they quarrel incessantly, but just as many separate because they were never honest enough or courageous enough to quarrel when they should have.
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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Incessantly
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We truly possess only what we are able to renounce otherwise, we are simply possessed by our possessions.
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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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Nobody can misunderstand a child as much as his own parents.
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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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No one should pay attention to a man delivering a lecture or a sermon on his philosophy of life until we know exactly how he treats his wife, his children, his neighbors, his friends, his subordinates and his enemies.
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The greatest enemy of progress is not stagnation, but false progress.
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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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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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Sometimes the best, and only effective, way to kill an idea is to put it into practice.
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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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A winner rebukes and forgives a loser is too timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive.
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Confidence, once lost or betrayed, can never be restored again to the same measure and we learn too late in life that our acts of deception are irrevocable - they may be forgiven, but they cannot be forgotten by their victims.
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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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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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Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
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Ignorance per se is not nearly as dangerous as ignorance of ignorance.
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