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Important Quotes by Sydney J. Harris
- Parents - and teachers too - are woefully short-sighted when they try to protect the child from his mistakes, when they make the "right answer"…
- 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 is much harder to handle is the sense that you have to live up to the mark someone else has set for you. The…
- Western civilization has not yet learned the lesson that the energy we expend in 'getting things done' is less important than the moral strength it…
- 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…
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- It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you can manage it, that you might somehow be happy. Until you make… — Richard Bach
- A real man loves his wife, and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought me more… — Frank Abagnale
- Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is that compassion… — Karen Armstrong
- The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician. — Louis Armstrong
- The important achievement of Apollo was demonstrating that humanity is not forever chained to this planet and our visions go rather further… — Neil Armstrong
- Casting ethnic characters is a very hard thing to do, but it's important. It's also interesting. — Darren Aronofsky
- I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new stuff and… — Darren Aronofsky