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Many people feel guilty about things they shouldn't feel guilty about, in order to shut out feelings of guilt about things they should feel guilty about.
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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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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Those obsessed with health are not healthy the first requisite of good health is a certain calculated carelessness about oneself.
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All significant achievement comes from daring from experiment from the willingness to risk failure.
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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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Between the semi-educated, who offer simplistic answers to complex questions, and the overeducated, who offer complicated answers to simple questions, it is a wonder that any questions get satisfactorily answered at all.
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This is a lesson mankind has not yet learned. We identify, and stratify, and treat persons largely on the basis of their accidental (physical) characteristics, which have no deeper meaning.
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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.
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When a baseball player makes an error, it goes into the record and is published. How many of us could stand this sort of daily scrutiny?
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Enemies, as well as lovers, come to resemble each other over a period of time.
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God cannot be solemn, or he would not have blessed man with the incalculable gift of laughter.
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More trouble is caused in this world by indiscreet answers than by indiscreet questions.
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Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
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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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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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Good teaching must be slow enough so that it is not confusing, and fast enough so that it is not boring.
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If the devil could be persuaded to write a bible, he would title it, You Only Live Once.
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The real heretic is not the atheist or agnostic (who are often decent people) but those who murmur it doesn't matter what you believe, as long as it makes you feel good. This turns religion into a subjective matter, like taste in furnishings, and robs theology of its claim to ultimate truth.
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