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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
Sydney Harris
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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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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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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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And most of the failures in parent-child relationships, from my observation, begin when the child begins to acquire a mind and a will of its own, to make independent decisions and to question the omnipotence or the wisdom of the parent.
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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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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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We believe what we want to believe, what we like to believe, what suits our prejudices and fuels our passions.
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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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If you want to know what a man's character is really like... ask him to tell you the living person he most admires - for hero worship is the truest index of a man's private nature.
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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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Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.
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Men make counterfeit money in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men.
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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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