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An American journalist for the Chicago Daily News and later the Chicago Sun-Times. Sydney J. Harris (14 September 1917– 8 December 1986) was an American journalist for the Chicago Daily News and later the Chicago Sun-Times. His column, “Strictly Personal,” was syndicated in many newspapers throughout the United States and Canada.
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The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
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Many persons of high intelligence have notoriously poor judgement.
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Men make counterfeit money; in many more cases money makes counterfeit men.
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There's no point in burying a hatchet if you're going to put up a marker on the site.
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The true test of independent judgement is being able to dislike someone who admires us.
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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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If a small thing has the power to make you angry does that not indicate something about your size?
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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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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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Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.
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A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past; he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future.
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We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until... we have stopped saying 'It got lost ' and say 'I lost it.'
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The two words 'information' and 'communication' are often used interchangeably but they signify quite different things. Information is giving out; communication is getting through.
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Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity; yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage.
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People who won't help others in trouble 'because they got into trouble through their own fault' would probably not throw a lifeline to a drowning man until they learned whether he fell in through his own fault or not.
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Ninety percent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves their abilities their frailties and even their real virtues. Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves.
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The lusts of the flesh can be gratified anywhere; it is not this sort of licence that distinguishes New York. It is rather a lust of the total ego for recognition even for eminence. More than elsewhere everybody here wants to be Somebody.