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Usually, if we hate, it is the shadow of the person that we hate, rather than the substance. We may hate a person because he reminds us of someone we feared and disliked when younger or because we see in him some gross caricature of what we find repugnant in ourself or because he symbolizes an attitude that seems to threaten us.

Sydney J. Harris

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Sydney J. Harris
Age: 69 †
Born: 1917
Born: September 14
Died: 1986
Died: December 8
Journalist
London
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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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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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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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Most people are mirrors, reflecting the moods and emotions of the times few are windows, bringing light to bear on the dark corners where troubles fester. The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
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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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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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Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.
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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.
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The greatest enemy of progress is not stagnation, but false progress.
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Real loneliness consists not in being alone, but in being with the wrong person, in the suffocating darkness of a room in which no deep communication is possible.
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Gourmet: Usually little more than a glutton festooned with credit cards.
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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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Enemies, as well as lovers, come to resemble each other over a period of time.
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The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure.
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Sincerity that thinks it is the sole possessor of the truth is a deadlier sin than hypocrisy, which knows better.
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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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All significant achievement comes from daring from experiment from the willingness to risk failure.
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We believe what we want to believe, what we like to believe, what suits our prejudices and fuels our passions.
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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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We truly possess only what we are able to renounce otherwise, we are simply possessed by our possessions.
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