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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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Many people feel guilty about things they shouldn't feel guilty about, in order to shut out feelings of guilt about things they should feel guilty about.
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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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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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Man's unique agony as a species consists in his perpetual conflict between the desire to stand out and the need to blend in.
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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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Ancient boundaries are meaningless, except for political purposes old divisions of clan and tribe are sentimental remnants of the pre-atomic age neither creed nor color nor place of origin is relevant to the realities of modern power to utterly seek and destroy.
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Norbert Blei is a writer the way people used to be troubadours and minstrels, celebrating what he has seen and heart and felt in a deceptively simple style reminiscent of the early Sherwood Anderson. . . . Like Anderson, he is a lover, and his affection invests his writing with a singular charm.
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Filth is always a sign of weakness - in the mouth of the user and in the mind of the writer.
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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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The art of living consists in knowing which impulses to obey and which must be made to obey.
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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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Genealogy: A perverse preoccupation of those who seek to demonstrate that their forebears were better people than they are.
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If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?
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This is a lesson mankind has not yet learned. We identify, and stratify, and treat persons largely on the basis of their accidental (physical) characteristics, which have no deeper meaning.
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Ignorance per se is not nearly as dangerous as ignorance of ignorance.
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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 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 reason that truth is stranger than fiction is that fiction has to have a rational thread running through it in order to be believable, whereas reality may be totally irrational.
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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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