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More trouble is caused in the world by indiscreet answers than by indiscreet questions.
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What you believe counts for less than how you feel and act toward your fellow man.
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Christianity is not a "spiritual" religion, like some religions of the east. It is an intensely "practical" religion, having its moral roots in the practicality of judaism. It was not designed to change the way men think or believe as much as to change the way they act.
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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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God grows as we grow, for He reflects what we become; and when we grow to the fullest, we have the fullest God — not a God of the fundamentalists, but a God of fundamentals, a light, not a lash.
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I know some people who are against fine weather if they think other folks are having more fun out of it than they are.
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Ambiguity has its own uses, and it is better to be vaguely right than precisely wrong.
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Every morning I take out my bankbook, stare at it, shudder — and turn quickly to my typewriter.
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Nothing is as easy to make as a promise this winter to do something next summer; this is how commencement speakers are caught.
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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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A university is not, primarily, a place in which to learn how to make a living; it is a place in which to learn how to be more fully a human being, how to draw upon one's resources, how to discipline the mind and expand the imagination; how to make some sense out of the big world we will shortly be thrown into.
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But what is significant is that if you don't want to like and accept somebody, one excuse is as good as another. The objective facts don't matter, and the reasons are never as 'reasonable' as we like to think they are.
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I would rather stay up late arguing with friends than get a good night's sleep.
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Just about the only interruption we don't object to is applause.
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A "consultant" is more often than not a person brought in to find out what has gone wrong, by the people who made it go wrong, in the comfortable expectation that he will not bite the hand that feeds him by placing the blame where it belongs.
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The Germans call delinquent boys who hang around in gangs the halbstark, meaning the 'half-strong,' which is a true and accurate description of what they are and how they feel. Someone who feels really strong doesn't have to act that way.
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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; because, though rational argument may take us to the edge of belief, we require a "leap of faith" to jump the chasm.
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Take the two popular words today, information and communication. They are often used interchangeably, but they signify quite different things. Information is giving out; communication is getting through.
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Much as a teacher may wince at the thought, he is also an entertainer—for unless he can hold his audience, he cannot really instruct or edify them.
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Ancient boundaries are meaningless, except for political purposes; old divisions of clan and tribe are sentimental remnants of the pre-atomic age; neither creed nor color nor place of origin is relevant to the realities of modern power to utterly seek and destroy.
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Homosexuality, in almost all cases, is no more a matter of sexual preference than my left-handedness is a matter of manual preference.
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What perverse instinct prompts people who are getting off at the second floor to push themselves to the rear of a crowded elevator?
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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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The strange thing about science is that if you have only a slight and superficial acquaintance with it, you are likely to lose your religious beliefs; but if you bother to delve somewhat more deeply, you are just as likely to renew and confirm your reverence for creation.
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It is true that the first book of the Bible commands us to "be fruitful and multiply" — but that was depicting a time when the total human population of the Earth was two.
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Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.
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Sydney J. Harris
Born:
September 14, 1917
Died:
December 8, 1986
(aged 69)
Bio:
Sydney J. Harris was an American journalist for the Chicago Daily News and, later, the Chicago Sun-Times.
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