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• When you run into someone who is disagreeable to others, you may be sure he is uncomfortable with himself; the amount of pain we inflict upon others is directly proportional to the amount we feel within us.

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  Running, Pain, May

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

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• If you want to know what a man's character is really like... ask him to tell you the living person he most admires - for hero worship is the truest index of a man's private nature.

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  Hero, Character, Men

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

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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 person until they learned whether that person fell in through his or her own fault or not.

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  Helping Others, People, Faults

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• When we inform, we lead from strength; when we communicate, we lead from weakness—and it is precisely this confession of mortality that engages the ears, heads and hearts of those we want to enlist as allies in a common cause.

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  Heart, Weakness, Allies

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

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• Happiness held is the seed; happiness shared is the flower. A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery while on a detour. Happiness is a direction, not a place.

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  Flower, Detours, Enjoy

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• The profound immoralities of our time are cruelty, indifference, injustice and the use of others as means rather than ends in themselves.

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  Mean, Profound, Use

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

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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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  Best Love, Believe, Partners

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

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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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  Answers, Problem, Predicaments

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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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  Anniversary, Marriage, Congratulations

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• The greatest educational dogma is also its greatest fallacy: the belief that what must be learned can necessarily be taught.

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  Educational, Creative, Taught

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• When a baseball player makes an error, it goes into the record and is published. How many of us could stand this sort of daily scrutiny?

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  Funny, Baseball, Player

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• Law is order in liberty, and without order liberty is social chaos.

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  Order, Law, Liberty

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• As WArden Lawes once said of convicts, no man can be called a failure until he has tried something he really likes, and fails at it.

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  Men, Likes, Failing

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

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• Why do most Americans look up to education and down upon educated people?

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  People, Looks, Look Up

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• The generality of mankind is lazy. What distinguishes men of genuine achievement from the rest of us is not so much their intellectual powers and aptitudes as their curiosity, their energy, their fullest use of their potentialities. Nobody really knows how smart or talented he is until he finds the incentives to use himself to the fullest. God has given us more than we know what to do with.

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  Smart, Men, Lazy

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• Confidence, once lost or betrayed, can never be restored again to the same measure; and we learn too late in life that our acts of deception are irrevocable - they may be forgiven, but they cannot be forgotten by their victims.

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  Deception, Too Late, May

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

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• A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive.

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  Forgiveness, Forgiving, Loser

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

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• Sometimes the best, and only effective, way to kill an idea is to put it into practice.

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  Practice, Ideas, Way

  Sydney J. Harris (1972). “For the Time Being”

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• Any philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs there.

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  Philosophy, Discovery, Ethics

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• Genealogy: A perverse preoccupation of those who seek to demonstrate that their forebears were better people than they are.

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  People, Genealogy, Preoccupation

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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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  Atrocities, Warfare, Greater

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

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• Those who imagine that the world is against them have generally conspired to make it true.

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  Imagination, World, Imagine

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• What the ordinary person means by a 'miracle' is some gross distortion or suspension of the laws of nature... but life itself strikes him as commonplace, when in truth a blade of grass or a neuron in the brain is a greater miracle.

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  Mean, Law, Miracle

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

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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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  Lessons, Characteristics, Treats

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

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• Character is something you forge for yourself; temperament is something you are born with and can only slightly modify.

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  Character, Born, Temperament

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

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