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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
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London
England
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An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run.
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The greatest enemy of progress is not stagnation, but false progress.
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Being yourself is not remaining what you were, or being satisfied with what you are. It is the point of departure and far from the goal.
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Many a secret that cannot be pried out by curiosity can be drawn out by indifference.
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It is not only useless, it is harmful, to believe in oneself until one truly knows oneself. And to know oneself means to accept our moments of insanity, of eccentricity, of childishness and blindness.
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Terrorism is what we call the violence of the weak, and we condemn it war is what we call the violence of the strong, and we glorify it.
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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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Why do so many people yearn for an eternal life when they don't even know what to do with themselves in this brief one?
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No one should pay attention to a man delivering a lecture or a sermon on his philosophy of life until we know exactly how he treats his wife, his children, his neighbors, his friends, his subordinates and his enemies.
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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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There is no such thing as an atrocity in warfare that is greater than the atrocity of warfare itself.
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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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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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There's no point in burying a hatchet if you're going to put up a marker on the site.
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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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We believe what we want to believe, what we like to believe, what suits our prejudices and fuels our passions.
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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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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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A truly successful person knows how to overcome the past, use the present, and prepare for the future-but unless we can first surmount the past, we cannot effectively cope with either the present or the future.
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The truest test of independent judgment is being able to dislike someone who admires us, and to admire someone who dislikes us.
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