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Skepticism is not an end in itself it is a tool for the discovery of truths.

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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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Skepticism
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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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All significant achievement comes from daring from experiment from the willingness to risk failure.
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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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If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?
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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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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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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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As WArden Lawes once said of convicts, no man can be called a failure until he has tried something he really likes, and fails at it.
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Good teaching must be slow enough so that it is not confusing, and fast enough so that it is not boring.
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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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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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Filth is always a sign of weakness - in the mouth of the user and in the mind of the writer.
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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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Once we assuage our conscience by calling something a necessary evil, it begins to look more and more necessary and less and less evil.
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If the devil could be persuaded to write a bible, he would title it, You Only Live Once.
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The founder of every creed from Jesus Christ to Karl Marx, would be appalled to return to earth and see what has been made of that creed, not by its enemies, but by its most devoted adherents.
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Confidence, once lost or betrayed, can never be restored again to the same measure and we learn too late in life that our acts of deception are irrevocable - they may be forgiven, but they cannot be forgotten by their victims.
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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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A famously wise old man in a village was once asked how he came by his wisdom. I got it from my good judgment, he answered. And where did his good judgment come from? I got it from my bad judgment.
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