Every rule in the book can be broken, except one – be who you are, and become all you were meant to be.
SYDNEY J. HARRISA man will lay down his life for his friend but will not sacrifice his eardrums.
More Sydney J. Harris Quotes
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Many people feel “guilty” about things they shouldn’t feel guilty about, in order to shut out feelings of guilt about things they should feel guilty about.
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When I hear somebody sigh, ‘Life is hard,’ I am always tempted to ask, ‘Compared to what?’
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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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Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
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Good teaching must be slow enough so that it is not confusing, and fast enough so that it is not boring.
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Being yourself is not remaining what you were, or being satisfied with what you are. It is the point of departure and far from the goal.
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You may be sure that when a man begins to call himself a realist he is preparing to do something that he is secretly ashamed of doing.
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The loner may be respected, but he is always resented by his colleagues, for he seems to be passing a critical judgment on them, when he may be simply making a limiting statement about himself.
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Patriotism is proud of a country’s virtues and eager to correct its deficiencies; it also acknowledges the legitimate patriotism of other countries, with their own specific virtues.
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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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And most of the failures in parent-child relationships, from my observation, begin when the child begins to acquire a mind and a will of its own, to make independent decisions and to question the omnipotence or the wisdom of the parent.
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The 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.
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Take away grievances from some people and you remove their reasons for living; most of us are nourished by hope, but a considerable minority get psychic nutrition from their resentments, and would waste away purposelessly without them.
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Real loneliness consists not in being alone, but in being with the wrong person, in the suffocating darkness of a room in which no deep communication is possible.
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Enemies, as well as lovers, come to resemble each other over a period of time.
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