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.
SYDNEY J. HARRISThe time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
More Sydney J. Harris Quotes
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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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When I hear somebody sigh, ‘Life is hard,’ I am always tempted to ask, ‘Compared to what?’
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The public examination of homosexuality in our contemporary life is still so coated with distasteful moral connotations that even a reviewer is bound to wonder uneasily why he was selected to evaluate a book on the subject.
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Nobody really knows how smart or talented he is until he finds the incentives to use himself to the fullest. God has given us more than we know what to do with.
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Elitism is the slur directed at merit by mediocrity.
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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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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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The main discomfort in being a middle-of-the-roader is that you get sideswiped by partisans going in both directions.
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The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
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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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Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, ‘Why not?’ and the other, ‘Why bother?’
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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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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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Time is love, above all else. It is the most precious commodity in the world and should be lavished on those we care most about.
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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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