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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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When you run into someone who is disagreeable to others, you may be sure he is uncomfortable with himself the amount of pain we inflict upon others is directly proportional to the amount we feel within us.
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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 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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The greatest enemy of progress is not stagnation, but false progress.
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Ignorance per se is not nearly as dangerous as ignorance of ignorance.
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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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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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Parents - and teachers too - are woefully short-sighted when they try to protect the child from his mistakes, when they make the right answer more important than the quest for knowledge and good judgment. For what is not learned within one's self cannot be learned from another.
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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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The art of living consists in knowing which impulses to obey and which must be made to obey.
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When a baseball player makes an error, it goes into the record and is published. How many of us could stand this sort of daily scrutiny?
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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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We evaluate others with a Godlike justice, but we want them to evaluate us with a Godlike compassion.
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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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American parents, on the whole, do not want their sons to be artisans or craftsmen, but business or professional people. As a result, millions of youngsters are being prepared for careers they have little aptitude for - and little interest in except for dubious prestige.
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