Sydney J. Harris Quotes - Page 6

• 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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  Witty, Democracies Have, Political

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• La civilización occidental aún no ha aprendido la lección de que la energía que gastamos en "hacer las cosas" es menos importante que la fuerza moral que se necesita para decidir lo que merece la pena hacer y lo que es correcto hacer.

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  Civilization, Priorities, Important

  Sydney J. Harris (1976). "Lo mejor de Sydney J. Harris"

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• Life is, if anything, the art of combination. Of discrimination. Of freely picking one's own personal pattern out of a hundred choices. Not letting it be picked for you—either by the Establishment, or by the Rebels. Conformity of Hip is no better than Conformity of Square.

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  Art, Squares, Choices

  Sydney J. Harris (1976). "Lo mejor de Sydney J. Harris"

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• People who think they're generous to a fault usually think that's their only fault.

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  Pensamiento, Personas, Generosidad

  Sydney J. Harris (1964). “ON THE CONTRARY”

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• Between the semi-educated, who offer simplistic answers to complex questions, and the overeducated, who offer complicated answers to simple questions, it is a wonder that any questions get satisfactorily answered at all.

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  Simple, Answers, Wonder

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• Usually, if we hate, it is the shadow of the person that we hate, rather than the substance. We may hate a person because he reminds us of someone we feared and disliked when younger; or because we see in him some gross caricature of what we find repugnant in ourself; or because he symbolizes an attitude that seems to threaten us.

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  Attitude, Hate, Shadow

  Sydney J. Harris (1976). "Lo mejor de Sydney J. Harris"

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• And most of the failures in parent-child relationships, from my observation, begin when the child begins to acquire a mind and a will of its own, to make independent decisions and to question the omnipotence or the wisdom of the parent.

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  Children, Independent, Omnipotence

  Sydney J. Harris (1976). "Lo mejor de Sydney J. Harris"

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• The art of listening needs its highest development in listening to oneself; our most important task is to develop an ear that can really hear what we're saying.

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  Art, Empathy, Listening

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• Agnosticism is a perfectly respectable and tenable philosophical position; it is not dogmatic and makes no pronouncements about the ultimate truths of the universe. It remains open to evidence and persuasion; lacking faith, it nevertheless does not deride faith. Atheism, on the other hand, is as unyielding and dogmatic about religious belief as true believers are about heathens. It tries to use reason to demolish a structure that is not built upon reason.

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  Religious, Philosophical, Hands

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

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• Norbert Blei is a writer the way people used to be troubadours and minstrels, celebrating what he has seen and heart and felt in a deceptively simple style reminiscent of the early Sherwood Anderson. . . . Like Anderson, he is a lover, and his affection invests his writing with a singular charm.

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  Writing, Heart, Simple

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• Many people feel "guilty" about things they shouldn't feel guilty about, in order to shut out feelings of guilt about things they should feel guilty about.

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  Order, People, Feelings

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• Somebody who never got over the embarrassing fact that he was born in bed with a lady.

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  Bed, Facts, Embarrassing

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• The paradox of friendship is that it is both the strongest thing in the world and the most fragile. Wild horses cannot separate friends, but whining words can. A man will lay down his life for his friend but will not sacrifice his eardrums.

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  Friendship, Horse, Sacrifice

  Sydney J. Harris (1953). "Estrictamente personal"

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• As long as there are human beings, there will be the idea of brotherhood -- and an almost total inability to practice it.

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  Men, Practice, Ideas

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• Nice things are done for our own sake, not for the sake of others. The pleasure must reside in the performance, not in the applause. Good deeds are, in a deeper psychological way, a favor to oneself. If this is not grasped, then our whole sense of personal relationships becomes warped.

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  Nice, Done, Deeds

  Sydney J. Harris (1976). "Lo mejor de Sydney J. Harris"

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• What is much harder to handle is the sense that you have to live up to the mark someone else has set for you. The grades become too important, the competition too frantic, the fear of disappointing those who believe in you turns into an overwhelming nightmare.

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  Believe, Boys, Parent

  "On the Contrary".

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• When we have "second thoughts" about something, our first thoughts don't seem like thoughts at all - just feelings.

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  Justice, Feelings, Firsts

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• Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.

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  Acceptance, Tolerance, Assuming

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• El mayor enemigo del progreso no es el estancamiento, sino el falso progreso.

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  Enemy Of Progress, Enemy, Progress

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• A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too Forgiveness breaks the chain of causality because he who forgives you -- out of love -- takes upon himself the consequences of what you have done. Forgiveness, therefore, always entails a sacrifice.

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  Forgiveness, Sacrifice, Forgiving

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• All significant achievement comes from daring from experiment from the willingness to risk failure.

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  Failure, Achievement, Risk

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• Nuclear war is inevitable, says the pessimists; Nuclear war is impossible, says the optimists; Nuclear war is inevitable unless we make it impossible, says the realists.

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  Peace, War, Nuclear

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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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  Children, Mistake, Lying

  Sydney J. Harris (1964). "Salir a la superficie"

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• Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.

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  Knowledge, Brain

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• Pero lo que es significativo es que si no quieres querer y aceptar a alguien, una excusa es tan buena como otra. Los hechos objetivos no importan, y las razones nunca son tan "razonables" como nos gusta pensar que son.

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  Pensar, Querer, Materia

  Sydney J. Harris (1976). "Lo mejor de Sydney J. Harris"

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