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Real loneliness consists not in being alone, but in being with the wrong person, in the suffocating darkness of a room in which no deep communication is possible.
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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Filth is always a sign of weakness - in the mouth of the user and in the mind of the writer.
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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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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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If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?
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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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Western civilization has not yet learned the lesson that the energy we expend in 'getting things done' is less important than the moral strength it takes to decide what is worth doing and what is right to do.
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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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Gourmet: Usually little more than a glutton festooned with credit cards.
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Maturity begins when we're content to feel we're right about something without feeling the necessity to prove someone else wrong.
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There's no point in burying a hatchet if you're going to put up a marker on the site.
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Those who imagine that the world is against them have generally conspired to make it true.
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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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We truly possess only what we are able to renounce otherwise, we are simply possessed by our possessions.
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Nobody can misunderstand a child as much as his own parents.
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