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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
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London
England
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The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, 'I was wrong'.
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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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A winner rebukes and forgives a loser is too timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive.
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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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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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There's no point in burying a hatchet if you're going to put up a marker on the site.
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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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When you run into someone who is disagreeable to others, you may be sure he is uncomfortable with himself the amount of pain we inflict upon others is directly proportional to the amount we feel within us.
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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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If you cannot endure to be thought in the wrong, you will begin to do terrible things to make the wrong appear right.
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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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Elitism is the slur directed at merit by mediocrity.
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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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The greatest enemy of progress is not stagnation, but false progress.
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Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better.
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The difference between faith and superstition is that the first uses reason to go as far as it can, and then makes the jump the second shuns reason entirely — which is why superstition is not the ally, but the enemy, of true religion.
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Life is, if anything, the art of combination. Of discrimination. Of freely picking one's own personal pattern out of a hundred choices. Not letting it be picked for you—either by the Establishment, or by the Rebels. Conformity of Hip is no better than Conformity of Square.
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As the horsepower in modern automobiles steadily rises, the congestion of traffic steadily lowers the average possible speed of your car. This is known as Progress.
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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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A university is not, primarily, a place in which to learn how to make a living it is a place in which to learn how to be more fully a human being, how to draw upon one's resources, how to discipline the mind and expand the imagination how to make some sense out of the big world we will shortly be thrown into.
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