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Nobody can misunderstand a child as much as his own parents.
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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Gourmet: Usually little more than a glutton festooned with credit cards.
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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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Western civilization has not yet learned the lesson that the energy we expend in 'getting things done' is less important than the moral strength it takes to decide what is worth doing and what is right to do.
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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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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 believe what we want to believe, what we like to believe, what suits our prejudices and fuels our passions.
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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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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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Many people know how to work hard many others know how to play well but the rarest talent in the world is the ability to introduce elements of playfulness into work, and to put some constructive labor into our leisure.
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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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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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The art of living consists in knowing which impulses to obey and which must be made to obey.
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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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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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Sometimes the best, and only effective, way to kill an idea is to put it into practice.
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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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Any creed whose basic doctrines do not include respect for the creeds of others, is simply power politics masquerading as philosophy.
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