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Sydney J. Harris
September 14, 1917 - December 8, 1986
Nationality: American
Category: Journalist
Subcategory: American Journalist

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

   

Ignorance per se is not nearly as dangerous as ignorance of ignorance.

   

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.

   

The art of living consists in knowing which impulses to obey and which must be made to obey.

   

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".

   

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

   

Enemies, as well as lovers, come to resemble each other over a period of time.

   

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.

   

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

   

Nothing is as easy to make as a promise this winter to do something next summer; this is how commencement speakers are caught.

   

Somebody who never got over the embarrassing fact that he was born in bed with a lady.

   

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

    Topics: Computer

Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.

   

Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, "Why not?" and the other, "Why bother?"

   

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

   

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

   

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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