Tag: Sydney Harris

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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Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better.

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People far prefer happiness to wisdom, but that is like wanting to be immortal without getting older.

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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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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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The reason that truth is stranger than fiction is that fiction has to have a rational thread running through it in order to be believable, whereas reality may be totally irrational.

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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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There’s no point in burying the hatchet if you’re going to put up a marker on the site.

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We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we move from the passive voice to the active voice-that is, until we have stopped saying ‘It got lost,’ and say, ‘I lost it.’

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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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