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Sydney J. Harris: “The art of listening needs its highest development in listening to oneself; our most important task is to develop an ear that can really hear what we're saying.
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Sydney J. Harris: “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: “When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?'
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Sydney J. Harris: “A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future.
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Sydney J. Harris: “It's surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely determined by their feelings toward themselves, and if you're not comfortable within yourself, you can't be comfortable with others.
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Sydney J. Harris: “The time to relax is -- when you don't have time for it.
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Sydney J. 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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Sydney J. Harris: “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: “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 stop saying 'It got lost,' and say 'I lost it.'
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Sydney J. Harris: “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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Sydney J. Harris: “Patriotism is proud of a country's virtues and eager to correct its deficiencies; it also acknowledges the legitimate patriotism of other countries, with their own specific virtues. The pride of nationalism, however, trumpets its country's virtues and denies its deficiencies, while it is contemptuous toward the virtues of other countries. It wants to be, and proclaims itself to be, 'the greatest,' but greatness is not required of a country; only goodness is.
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