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Gourmet: Usually little more than a glutton festooned with credit cards.

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Sydney J. Harris
Age: 69 †
Born: 1917
Born: September 14
Died: 1986
Died: December 8
Journalist
London
England
Sydney Harris
Glutton
Gourmet
Cards
Credit
Usually
Food
Littles
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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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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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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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God cannot be solemn, or he would not have blessed man with the incalculable gift of laughter.
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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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Never let your fears be the boundaries of your dreams. Happiness is a direction, not a place.
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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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