#na

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

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. ↗

— Sydney J. Harris

#directly #directly proportional #disagreeable #feel #himself

The greatest enemy of progress is not stagnation, but false progress. ↗

— Sydney J. Harris

#false #greatest #progress #stagnation

Any nation that refuses to hold intercourse with other nations must expect to be excluded from this family. ↗

— Townsend Harris

#excluded #expect #family #hold #intercourse

If I write in my name to the agents of England and France residing in Asia and inform them that Japan is ready to make a commercial treaty with their countries, the number of steamers will be reduced from fifty to two or three. ↗

— Townsend Harris

#asia #commercial #countries #england #fifty

The nations of the West hope that by means of steam communication all the world will become as one family. ↗

— Townsend Harris

#communication #family #hope #means #nations

True revolutionaries are like God - they create the world in their own image. Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings. ↗

— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

#awesome responsibility #because #children #create #depends

I refuse to believe that trading recipes is silly. Tuna Fish casserole is at least as real as corporate stock. ↗

— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

#corporate #fish #i #least #real

I'm not rational enough to be a good journalist. ↗

— Jim Harrison

#good #i #journalist #rational

I'm actually forced to write about Michigan because as a native of that state it's the place I know best. ↗

— Jim Harrison

#actually #because #best #forced #i