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One Quotes by Sydney J. Harris
- A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, his is also one who is permanently disappointed in the future.
- 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…
- Parents - and teachers too - are woefully short-sighted when they try to protect the child from his mistakes, when they make the "right answer"…
- 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…
- 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…
- It is not only useless, it is harmful, to believe in oneself until one truly knows oneself. And to know oneself means to accept our…
- Every rule in the book can be broken, except one - be who you are, and become all you were meant to be....
- Why do so many people yearn for an eternal life when they don't even know what to do with themselves in this brief one?
- 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…
- Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, 'Why not?' and the other, 'Why bother?'
- The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure.
- Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.
- The commonest fallacy among women is that simply having children makes them a mother - which is as absurd as believing that having a piano…
- One good reason why computers can do more work than people is that they never have to stop and answer the phone
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