Nothing is as easy to make as a promise this winter to do something next summer; this is how commencement speakers are caught.
SYDNEY J. HARRISPeople decline invitations when they are “indisposed” physically, and I wish they would do likewise when they feel indisposed emotionally. A person has no more right to attend a party with a head full of venom than with a throat full of virus.
More Sydney J. Harris Quotes
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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 pessimist sees only the tunnel; the optimist sees the light at the end of the tunnel; the realist sees the tunnel and the light – and the next tunnel.
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If you cannot endure to be thought in the wrong, you will begin to do terrible things to make the wrong appear right.
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When we have “second thoughts” about something, our first thoughts don’t seem like thoughts at all – just feelings.
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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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We truly possess only what we are able to renounce; otherwise, we are simply possessed by our possessions.
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Every morning I take out my bankbook, stare at it, shudder – and turn quickly to my typewriter.
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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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Why do most Americans look up to education and down upon educated people?
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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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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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Any philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs there.
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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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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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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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