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~ Sydney J. Harris Quotes ~
« on: October 13, 2015, 01:42:24 PM »
Sydney J. Harris Quotes


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.

Here are some famous quotes by  Sydney J. Harris.




The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
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« Reply #1 on: October 13, 2015, 01:48:07 PM »
Many persons of high intelligence have notoriously poor judgement.
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« Reply #2 on: October 13, 2015, 01:49:10 PM »
Men make counterfeit money; in many more cases money makes counterfeit men.
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« Reply #3 on: October 13, 2015, 01:51:21 PM »
There's no point in burying a hatchet if you're going to put up a marker on the site.
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« Reply #4 on: October 13, 2015, 01:53:25 PM »
The true test of independent judgement is being able to dislike someone who admires us.
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« Reply #5 on: October 13, 2015, 01:53:57 PM »
When I hear somebody sigh 'Life is hard ' I am always tempted to ask 'Compared to what?'
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« Reply #6 on: October 13, 2015, 01:54:30 PM »
If a small thing has the power to make you angry does that not indicate something about your size?
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« Reply #7 on: October 13, 2015, 01:55:23 PM »
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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« Reply #8 on: October 13, 2015, 01:56:23 PM »
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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« Reply #9 on: October 13, 2015, 01:57:07 PM »
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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« Reply #10 on: October 13, 2015, 01:58:02 PM »
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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« Reply #11 on: October 13, 2015, 01:58:51 PM »
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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« Reply #12 on: October 13, 2015, 01:59:24 PM »
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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« Reply #13 on: October 13, 2015, 02:00:18 PM »
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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« Reply #14 on: October 13, 2015, 02:00:48 PM »
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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