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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
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London
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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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Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.
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The reason that truth is stranger than fiction is that fiction has to have a rational thread running through it in order to be believable, whereas reality may be totally irrational.
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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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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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Sometimes the best, and only effective, way to kill an idea is to put it into practice.
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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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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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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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We truly possess only what we are able to renounce otherwise, we are simply possessed by our possessions.
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There are always too many Democratic congressmen, too many Republican congressmen, and never enough U.S. congressmen.
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Character is something you forge for yourself temperament is something you are born with and can only slightly modify.
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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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Skepticism is not an end in itself it is a tool for the discovery of truths.
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Elitism is the slur directed at merit by mediocrity.
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Christianity is not a spiritual religion, like some religions of the east. It is an intensely practical religion, having its moral roots in the practicality of judaism. It was not designed to change the way men think or believe as much as to change the way they act.
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The severest test of character is not so much the ability to keep a secret as it is, when the secret is finally out, to refrain from disclosing that you knew it all along.
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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 our efforts to attain immortality-by statesmanship, by conquest, by science or the arts-are equally vain in the long run, because the long run is longer than any of us can imagine.
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We can often endure an extra pound of pain far more easily than we can suffer the withdrawal of an ounce of accustomed pleasure.
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