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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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London
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A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, his is also one who is permanently disappointed in the future.
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Those obsessed with health are not healthy the first requisite of good health is a certain calculated carelessness about oneself.
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The reason that truth is stranger than fiction is that fiction has to have a rational thread running through it in order to be believable, whereas reality may be totally irrational.
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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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We must become masters of our own actions and attitudes. To let another person determine whether we will be rude or gracious, elated or depressed is to give control of ourselves. The only true possession is self possession.
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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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We believe what we want to believe, what we like to believe, what suits our prejudices and fuels our passions.
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Elitism is the slur directed at merit by mediocrity.
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More trouble is caused in this world by indiscreet answers than by indiscreet questions.
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Why are we willing to accept a new mathematical formula we don't understand as the product of a brilliant mind, while rejecting a new art form we don't understand as the product of a deranged mind?
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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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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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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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All our efforts to attain immortality-by statesmanship, by conquest, by science or the arts-are equally vain in the long run, because the long run is longer than any of us can imagine.
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