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Men Quotes by Sydney J. Harris
- Man's unique agony as a species consists in his perpetual conflict between the desire to stand out and the need to blend in.
- 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…
- You may be sure that when a man begins to call himself a realist he is preparing to do something that he is secretly ashamed…
- Isolation always perverts; when a man lives only among his own sort, he soon begins to believe that his sort are the best sort. This…
- 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…
- A famously wise old man in a village was once asked how he came by his wisdom. "I got it from my good judgment," he…
- 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…
- Almost every man looks more so in a belted trench coat.
- The world has always been betrayed by decent men with bad ideals.
- 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…
- The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.
- Men make counterfeit money; in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men.
- Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
- 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…
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- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- A man's homeland is wherever he prospers. — Aristophanes
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- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
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