Never let your fears be the boundaries of your dreams. Happiness is a direction, not a place.
SYDNEY J. HARRISThe real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.
More Sydney J. Harris Quotes
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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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We evaluate others with a Godlike justice, but we want them to evaluate us with a Godlike compassion.
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A university is not, primarily, a place in which to learn how to make a living; it is a place in which to learn how to be more fully a human being, how to draw upon one’s resources, how to discipline the mind and expand the imagination; how to make some sense out of the big world we will shortly be thrown into.
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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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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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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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Nothing is as easy to make as a promise this winter to do something next summer; this is how commencement speakers are caught.
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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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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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Love makes everything lovely; hate concentrates itself on the object of its hatred.
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The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
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Elitism is the slur directed at merit by mediocrity.
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You may be sure that when a man begins to call himself a realist he is preparing to do something that he is secretly ashamed of doing.
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There are always too many Democratic congressmen, too many Republican congressmen, and never enough U.S. congressmen.
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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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