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Gourmet: Usually little more than a glutton festooned with credit cards.
Sydney J. Harris
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Sydney J. Harris
Age: 69 †
Born: 1917
Born: September 14
Died: 1986
Died: December 8
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London
England
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Skepticism is not an end in itself it is a tool for the discovery of truths.
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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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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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We evaluate others with a Godlike justice, but we want them to evaluate us with a Godlike compassion.
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Many a secret that cannot be pried out by curiosity can be drawn out by indifference.
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Between the semi-educated, who offer simplistic answers to complex questions, and the overeducated, who offer complicated answers to simple questions, it is a wonder that any questions get satisfactorily answered at all.
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We truly possess only what we are able to renounce otherwise, we are simply possessed by our possessions.
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Why are we willing to accept a new mathematical formula we don't understand as the product of a brilliant mind, while rejecting a new art form we don't understand as the product of a deranged mind?
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Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
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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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Never take the advice of someone who has not had your kind of trouble.
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It's odd, and a little unsettling, to reflect upon the fact that English is the only major language in which I is capitalized in many other languages You is capitalized and the i is lower case. --
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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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Much as a teacher may wince at the thought, he is also an entertainer—for unless he can hold his audience, he cannot really instruct or edify them.
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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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Those obsessed with health are not healthy the first requisite of good health is a certain calculated carelessness about oneself.
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The severest test of character is not so much the ability to keep a secret as it is, when the secret is finally out, to refrain from disclosing that you knew it all along.
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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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We believe what we want to believe, what we like to believe, what suits our prejudices and fuels our passions.
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Nobody can misunderstand a child as much as his own parents.
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