We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we have stopped saying ‘It got lost,’ and say, ‘I lost it.’
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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Happiness is a direction, not a place.
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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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The greatest enemy of progress is not stagnation, but false progress.
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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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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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A ‘penchant for telling the truth’ can cripple a candidates chances faster than being caught in flagrante delicto with the governor’s wife.
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Making out an invitation list for a party brings out the worst in everyone. It is then that our most ruthless estimates of the people we know come into play.
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The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
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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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The world has always been betrayed by decent men with bad ideals.
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Agnosticism is a perfectly respectable and tenable philosophical position; it is not dogmatic and makes no pronouncements about the ultimate truths of the universe. It remains open to evidence and persuasion; lacking faith, it nevertheless does not deride faith.
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Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.
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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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All significant achievement comes from daring from experiment from the willingness to risk failure.
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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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