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Sydney J. Harris

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When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?


— Sydney J. Harris


#life

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.


— Sydney J. Harris


#personal-growth #love

The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.


— Sydney J. Harris


#begin #danger #like #men #real

The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.


— Sydney J. Harris


#into #mirrors #purpose #turn #whole

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.


— Sydney J. Harris


#better #dilemma #get #hate #love

Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.


— Sydney J. Harris


#regret #tempered #things #time

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


#activity #almost #any #automatically #believes

Happiness is a direction, not a place.


— Sydney J. Harris


#direction #place

Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.


— Sydney J. Harris


#assume #boasting #egotism #form #intolerance

If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?


— Sydney J. Harris


#about #angry #does #indicate #make






About Sydney J. Harris






Did you know about Sydney J. Harris?

Sydney J. He became a member of the editorial staff of the Chicago Daily News in 1941 and began his column in 1944. He attended high school with Saul Bellow who was his lifelong friend.

Sydney J. His weekday column “Strictly Personal” was syndicated in many newspapers throughout the United States and Canada.

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