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Character is something you forge for yourself temperament is something you are born with and can only slightly modify.
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
Sydney Harris
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When we inform, we lead from strength when we communicate, we lead from weakness—and it is precisely this confession of mortality that engages the ears, heads and hearts of those we want to enlist as allies in a common cause.
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The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure.
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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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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.
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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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Many people know how to work hard many others know how to play well but the rarest talent in the world is the ability to introduce elements of playfulness into work, and to put some constructive labor into our leisure.
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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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No one should pay attention to a man delivering a lecture or a sermon on his philosophy of life until we know exactly how he treats his wife, his children, his neighbors, his friends, his subordinates and his enemies.
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