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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.
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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Genealogy: A perverse preoccupation of those who seek to demonstrate that their forebears were better people than they are.
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Enemies, as well as lovers, come to resemble each other over a period of time.
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Terrorism is what we call the violence of the weak, and we condemn it war is what we call the violence of the strong, and we glorify it.
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Once we assuage our conscience by calling something a necessary evil, it begins to look more and more necessary and less and less evil.
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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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