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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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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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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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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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More trouble is caused in this world by indiscreet answers than by indiscreet questions.
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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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Much as a teacher may wince at the thought, he is also an entertainer—for unless he can hold his audience, he cannot really instruct or edify them.
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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 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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The difference between faith and superstition is that the first uses reason to go as far as it can, and then makes the jump the second shuns reason entirely — which is why superstition is not the ally, but the enemy, of true religion.
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A winner rebukes and forgives a loser is too Forgiveness breaks the chain of causality because he who forgives you -- out of love -- takes upon himself the consequences of what you have done. Forgiveness, therefore, always entails a sacrifice.
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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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A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, his is also one who is permanently disappointed in the future.
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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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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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It may be true that the weak will always be driven to the wall but it is the task of a just society to see that the wall is climbable.
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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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The greatest enemy of progress is not stagnation, but false progress.
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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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The art of living consists in knowing which impulses to obey and which must be made to obey.
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