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No one should pay attention to a man delivering a lecture or a sermon on his philosophy of life until we know exactly how he treats his wife, his children, his neighbors, his friends, his subordinates and his enemies.
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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Many a secret that cannot be pried out by curiosity can be drawn out by indifference.
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Confidence, once lost or betrayed, can never be restored again to the same measure and we learn too late in life that our acts of deception are irrevocable - they may be forgiven, but they cannot be forgotten by their victims.
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A winner rebukes and forgives a loser is too Forgiveness breaks the chain of causality because he who forgives you -- out of love -- takes upon himself the consequences of what you have done. Forgiveness, therefore, always entails a sacrifice.
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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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Never let your fears be the boundaries of your dreams. Happiness is a direction, not a place.
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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.
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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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A truly successful person knows how to overcome the past, use the present, and prepare for the future-but unless we can first surmount the past, we cannot effectively cope with either the present or the future.
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Filth is always a sign of weakness - in the mouth of the user and in the mind of the writer.
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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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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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Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better.
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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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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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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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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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Self-discipline without talent can often achieve astounding results, whereas talent without self-discipline inevitably dooms itself to failure.
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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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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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Gourmet: Usually little more than a glutton festooned with credit cards.
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