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Norbert Blei is a writer the way people used to be troubadours and minstrels, celebrating what he has seen and heart and felt in a deceptively simple style reminiscent of the early Sherwood Anderson. . . . Like Anderson, he is a lover, and his affection invests his writing with a singular charm.

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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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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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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We evaluate others with a Godlike justice, but we want them to evaluate us with a Godlike compassion.
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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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Somebody who never got over the embarrassing fact that he was born in bed with a lady.
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Sometimes the best, and only effective, way to kill an idea is to put it into practice.
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We can often endure an extra pound of pain far more easily than we can suffer the withdrawal of an ounce of accustomed pleasure.
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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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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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Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
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Most people are mirrors, reflecting the moods and emotions of the times few are windows, bringing light to bear on the dark corners where troubles fester. The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
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We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we have stopped saying 'It got lost,' and say, 'I lost it.'
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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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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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Nobody can misunderstand a child as much as his own parents.
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The most important thing in an argument, next to being right, is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent, so that he can gracefully swing over to your side without too much apparent loss of face.
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Why do so many people yearn for an eternal life when they don't even know what to do with themselves in this brief one?
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Perseverance is the most overrated of traits, if it is unaccompanied by talent beating your head against a wall is more likely to produce a concussion in the head than a hole in the wall.
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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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Never let your fears be the boundaries of your dreams. Happiness is a direction, not a place.
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