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Sydney J. Harris
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"Happiness is a direction, not a place."
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Sydney J. Harris
Topic(s):
Happiness
"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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Sydney J. Harris
Topic(s):
Government
"Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable."
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Sydney J. Harris
Topic(s):
Time
"The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows."
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Sydney J. Harris
Topic(s):
Education
"The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one’s mind a pleasant place in which to spend one’s leisure."
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Sydney J. Harris
Topic(s):
Education
"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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Sydney J. Harris
Topic(s):
Beauty
"When I hear somebody sigh, ‘Life is hard,’ I am always tempted to ask, ‘Compared to what?’"
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Sydney J. Harris
Topic(s):
Life
"If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?"
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Sydney J. Harris
Topic(s):
Anger
"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 automatically deserves success in marriage."
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Sydney J. Harris
Topic(s):
Great
"The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, “I was wrong”."
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Sydney J. Harris
Topic(s):
Love
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