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Never take the advice of someone who has not had your kind of trouble.
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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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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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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We truly possess only what we are able to renounce otherwise, we are simply possessed by our possessions.
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If you want to know what a man's character is really like... ask him to tell you the living person he most admires - for hero worship is the truest index of a man's private nature.
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A winner rebukes and forgives a loser is too timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive.
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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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Elitism is the slur directed at merit by mediocrity.
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If you cannot endure to be thought in the wrong, you will begin to do terrible things to make the wrong appear right.
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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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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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Many a secret that cannot be pried out by curiosity can be drawn out by indifference.
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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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