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God cannot be solemn, or he would not have blessed man with the incalculable gift of laughter.
Sydney J. Harris
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Sydney J. Harris
Age: 69 †
Born: 1917
Born: September 14
Died: 1986
Died: December 8
Journalist
London
England
Sydney Harris
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All significant achievement comes from daring from experiment from the willingness to risk failure.
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People decline invitations when they are indisposed physically, and I wish they would do likewise when they feel indisposed emotionally. A person has no more right to attend a party with a head full of venom than with a throat full of virus.
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A famously wise old man in a village was once asked how he came by his wisdom. I got it from my good judgment, he answered. And where did his good judgment come from? I got it from my bad judgment.
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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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Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.
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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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A winner rebukes and forgives a loser is too timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive.
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Elitism is the slur directed at merit by mediocrity.
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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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When we inform, we lead from strength when we communicate, we lead from weakness—and it is precisely this confession of mortality that engages the ears, heads and hearts of those we want to enlist as allies in a common cause.
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