And to assert defensively at the outset that he is happily married, the father of four children and the one-time adornment of his college boxing, track and tennis teams.
SYDNEY J. HARRISThe 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.
More Sydney J. Harris Quotes
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Why do most Americans look up to education and down upon educated people?
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There is no such thing as an “atrocity” in warfare that is greater than the atrocity of warfare itself.
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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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Usually, if we hate, it is the shadow of the person that we hate, rather than the substance.
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When we have “second thoughts” about something, our first thoughts don’t seem like thoughts at all – just feelings.
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We truly possess only what we are able to renounce; otherwise, we are simply possessed by our possessions.
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Any philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs there.
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The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.
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By the time a man asks you for advice, he has generally made up his mind what he wants to do, and is looking for confirmation rather than counseling.
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This is a lesson mankind has not yet learned. We identify, and stratify, and treat persons largely on the basis of their accidental (physical) characteristics, which have no deeper meaning.
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Love makes everything lovely; hate concentrates itself on the object of its hatred.
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Enemies, as well as lovers, come to resemble each other over a period of time.
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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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It’s surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely determined by their feelings toward themselves, and if you’re not comfortable within yourself, you can’t be comfortable with others.
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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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