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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.
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
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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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Nothing is as easy to make as a promise this winter to do something next summer this is how commencement speakers are caught.
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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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Any creed whose basic doctrines do not include respect for the creeds of others, is simply power politics masquerading as philosophy.
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Most people are mirrors, reflecting the moods and emotions of the times few are windows, bringing light to bear on the dark corners where troubles fester. The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
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Never take the advice of someone who has not had your kind of trouble.
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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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Elitism is the slur directed at merit by mediocrity.
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