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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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"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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Amber Hurdle

"If a moneyed man had a "corny mind, a flatterer would immediately start chasing him like a hungry hen!"

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Amber Hurdle

"A government which is not liked by the artists is certainly a bad government, because artist sees very well what is behind the masks!"

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Amber Hurdle

"Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other."

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Amber Hurdle

"An honest government is the childish dream of the gullible men!"

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Amber Hurdle

"Our spiritual history is the history of God-ventriloquists! The truth is that the voice of God is the voice of cunning Man, the ventriloquist's voice!"

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Amber Hurdle

"Most of the time it is a good job and a good honour to fight against people's values, because most of the time people's values are irrational and absurd!"

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Amber Hurdle

"A country where women are not free has no chance ever to be something good and respectable!"

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Amber Hurdle

"Governments stand because people sit; if people stand, governments will sit!"

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Amber Hurdle

"It is better to go near the truth and be imprisoned than to stay with the wrong and roam about freely, master Galilei. In fact, getting attached to falsity is terrible slavery, and real freedom is only next to the right."

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Amber Hurdle

"For breakfast to be called 'in bed' instead of 'on top of a bed,' the house in which it is about to be eaten has to have at least two rooms (excluding the kitchen); (at least) three, if it has a bathroom."

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Sydney J. Harris
"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."

Change

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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."

Time

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

Time

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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."

Society

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

Life

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Sydney J. Harris
"People who think they're generous to a fault usually think that's their only fault."

People

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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."

Creativity

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

Art

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Sydney J. Harris
"Many a secret that cannot be pried out by curiosity can be drawn out by indifference."

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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"."

Love

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