Usually, if we hate, it is the shadow of the person that we hate, rather than the substance.
SYDNEY J. HARRISWe have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we have stopped saying ‘It got lost,’ and say, ‘I lost it.’
More Sydney J. Harris Quotes
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The art of living consists in knowing which impulses to obey and which must be made to obey.
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If you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the problem, but the perpetual human predicament is that the answer soon poses its own problems.
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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 time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
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It’s odd, and a little unsettling, to reflect upon the fact that English is the only major language in which “I” is capitalized; in many other languages “You” is capitalized and the “i” is lower case.” —
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Marriages we regard as the happiest are those in which each of the partners believes he or she got the best of it.
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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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A loser says that’s the way it’s always been done. A winner says there ought to be a better way.
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Any philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs there.
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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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The best thing you can give children, next to good habits, are good memories.
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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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The founder of every creed from Jesus Christ to Karl Marx, would be appalled to return to earth and see what has been made of that creed, not by its enemies, but by its most devoted adherents.
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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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Honesty consists of the unwillingness to lie to others; maturity, which is equally hard to attain, consists of the unwillingness to lie to oneself.
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