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The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
Sydney J. Harris in
Education
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The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.
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Computers
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If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?
Sydney J. Harris in
Anger
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The art of living consists in knowing which impulses to obey and which must be made to obey.
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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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Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.
Sydney J. Harris in
Government
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Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
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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.
Sydney J. Harris in
Marriage
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Somebody who never got over the embarrassing fact that he was born in bed with a lady.
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Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, "Why not?" and the other, "Why bother?"
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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 swing over to your side without too much apparent loss of face.
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An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run.
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When you run into someone who is disagreeable to others, you may be sure he is uncomfortable with himself; the amount of pain we inflict upon others is directly proportional to the amount we feel within us.
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When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?'
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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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