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Enemies, as well as lovers, come to resemble each other over a period of time.
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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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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As long as there are human beings, there will be the idea of brotherhood -- and an almost total inability to practice it.
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And most of the failures in parent-child relationships, from my observation, begin when the child begins to acquire a mind and a will of its own, to make independent decisions and to question the omnipotence or the wisdom of the parent.
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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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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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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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The art of living consists in knowing which impulses to obey and which must be made to obey.
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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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Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.
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We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we have stopped saying 'It got lost,' and say, 'I lost it.'
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It's odd, and a little unsettling, to reflect upon the fact that English is the only major language in which I is capitalized in many other languages You is capitalized and the i is lower case. --
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Ignorance per se is not nearly as dangerous as ignorance of ignorance.
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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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Gourmet: Usually little more than a glutton festooned with credit cards.
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Nuclear war is inevitable, says the pessimists Nuclear war is impossible, says the optimists Nuclear war is inevitable unless we make it impossible, says the realists.
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The founder of every creed from Jesus Christ to Karl Marx, would be appalled to return to earth and see what has been made of that creed, not by its enemies, but by its most devoted adherents.
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Maturity begins when we're content to feel we're right about something without feeling the necessity to prove someone else wrong.
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More trouble is caused in this world by indiscreet answers than by indiscreet questions.
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The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, 'I was wrong'.
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Skepticism is not an end in itself it is a tool for the discovery of truths.
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