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.
SYDNEY J. HARRISAnd 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.
More Sydney J. Harris Quotes
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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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Every rule in the book can be broken, except one – be who you are, and become all you were meant to be.
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What is much harder to handle is the sense that you have to live up to the mark someone else has set for you. The grades become too important, the competition too frantic, the fear of disappointing those who believe in you turns into an overwhelming nightmare.
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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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Man’s unique agony as a species consists in his perpetual conflict between the desire to stand out and the need to blend in.
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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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Why do most Americans look up to education and down upon educated people?
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Ignorance per se is not nearly as dangerous as ignorance of ignorance.
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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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The severest test of character is not so much the ability to keep a secret as it is, when the secret is finally out, to refrain from disclosing that you knew it all along.
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Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.
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The best combination of parents consists of a father who is gentle beneath his firmness, and a mother who is firm beneath her gentleness.
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The world has always been betrayed by decent men with bad ideals.
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Between the semi-educated, who offer simplistic answers to complex questions, and the overeducated, who offer complicated answers to simple questions, it is a wonder that any questions get satisfactorily answered at all.
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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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