| The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows. |
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- Sydney J. Harris |
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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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- Sydney J. Harris |
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| The beauty of "spacing" children many years apart lies in the fact that parents have time to learn the mistakes that were made with the older ones - which permits them to make exactly the opposite mistakes with the younger ones. |
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- Sydney J. Harris |
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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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- Sydney J. Harris |
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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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- Sydney J. Harris |
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| Happiness is a direction, not a place. |
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- Sydney J. Harris |
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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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- Sydney J. Harris |
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| Never take the advice of someone who has not had your kind of trouble. |
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- Sydney J. Harris |
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| The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure. |
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- Sydney J. Harris |
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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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- Sydney J. Harris |
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| Almost every man looks more so in a belted trench coat. |
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- Sydney J. Harris |
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| Those obsessed with health are not healthy; the first requisite of good health is a certain calculated carelessness about oneself. |
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- Sydney J. Harris |
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| The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers. |
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- Sydney J. Harris |
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| We can often endure an extra pound of pain far more easily than we can suffer the withdrawal of an ounce of accustomed pleasure. |
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- Sydney J. Harris |
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