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• We believe what we want to believe, what we like to believe, what suits our prejudices and fuels our passions.

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  Believe, Passion, Prejudice

  Sydney J. Harris (1986). “Clearing the ground”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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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  Able, Renounce, Possession

  Sydney J. Harris (1976). “Best of Sydney J. Harris”

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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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  Book, Effectiveness, Broken

  Sydney J. Harris (1964). “Leaving the Surface”

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• Patriotism is proud of a country's virtues and eager to correct its deficiencies; it also acknowledges the legitimate patriotism of other countries, with their own specific virtues. The pride of nationalism, however, trumpets its country's virtues and denies its deficiencies, while it is contemptuous toward the virtues of other countries. It wants to be, and proclaims itself to be, "the greatest," but greatness is not required of a country; only goodness is.

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  Country, Humility, Pride

  "Pieces of Eight". Book by Sydney J. Harris, 1982.

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• A winner knows how much he still has to learn, even when he is considered an expert by others; a loser wants to be considered an expert by others before he has learned enough to know how little he knows.

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  Growth, Experts, Want

  Sydney J. Harris (1964). “Leaving the Surface”

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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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  Compassion, Justice, Judging

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• Self-discipline without talent can often achieve astounding results, whereas talent without self-discipline inevitably dooms itself to failure.

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  Self, Discipline, Talent

  Sydney J. Harris (1985). “Pieces of Eight Pa”, Mariner Books

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• By the time a man asks you for advice, he has generally made up his mind what he wants to do, and is looking for confirmation rather than counseling.

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  Men, Advice, Mind

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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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  Truth, Honesty, Lying

  Sydney J. Harris (1982). “Pieces of Eight”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Enemies, as well as lovers, come to resemble each other over a period of time.

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  Enemy, Lovers, Time Love

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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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  Funny, Witty, Two

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• The deepest and rarest kind of courage has nothing to do with feats or obstacles in the outside world; and, indeed, has nothing to do with the outside world - it is the courage to be who you are.

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  Courage, Be Who You Are, World

  Sydney J. Harris (1964). “Leaving the Surface”

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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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  Men, Thinking, Ideas

  Sydney J. Harris (1953). “Strictly personal”

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• It's surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely determined by their feelings toward themselves, and if you're not comfortable within yourself, you can't be comfortable with others.

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  Relationship, Confidence, Self Esteem

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• The time to relax is when you don't have time for it.

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  Funny, Witty, Time

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• "Terrorism" is what we call the violence of the weak, and we condemn it; "war" is what we call the violence of the strong, and we glorify it.

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  Strong, War, Violence

  Sydney J. Harris (1986). “Clearing the ground”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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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  Forgiveness, Heartbroken, Site

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• As we grow older, we should learn that these are two quite different things. Character is something you forge for yourself; temperament is something you are born with and can only slightly modify. Some people have easy temperaments and weak characters; others have difficult temperaments and strong characters. We are all prone to confuse the two in assessing people we associate with. Those with easy temperaments and weak characters are more likable than admirable; those with difficult temperaments and strong characters are more admirable than likable.

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  Strong, Character, Two

  Sydney J. Harris (1986). “Clearing the ground”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Happiness is a direction, not a place.

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  Happiness, Happy, Being Happy

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• The most important thing in an argument, next to being right, is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent, so that he can gracefully swing over to your side without too much apparent loss of face.

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  Appreciation, Loss, Swings

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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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  Done, Way, Loser

  Sydney J. Harris (1964). “Leaving the Surface”

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• No one should pay attention to a man delivering a lecture or a sermon on his "philosophy of life" until we know exactly how he treats his wife, his children, his neighbors, his friends, his subordinates and his enemies.

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  Children, Philosophy, Men

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• Many people know how to work hard; many others know how to play well; but the rarest talent in the world is the ability to introduce elements of playfulness into work, and to put some constructive labor into our leisure.

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  Hard Work, Play, People

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• Isolation always perverts; when a man lives only among his own sort, he soon begins to believe that his sort are the best sort. This attitude breeds both the arrogance of the conservative and the bitterness of the radical.

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  Attitude, Believe, Men

  Sydney J. Harris (1976). “Best of Sydney J. Harris”

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• Good teaching must be slow enough so that it is not confusing, and fast enough so that it is not boring.

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  Teacher, Teaching, Confusing

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