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,

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Moral Include Task World

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The two words 'information' and 'communication' are often used interchangeably, but they signify quite different things. Information is giving out; communication is getting through.The two words 'information' and 'communication' are often used interchangeably, but they signify quite different things. Information is giving out; communication is getting through.

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Communication Different Things Getting

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

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About Angry Does Indicate

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

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Danger Computer Men Think

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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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Asking Democracy Only Ought

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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.

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Automatically Believes Deserves Enough

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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.

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Apart Beauty Children Exactly

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

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Burying Point Marker Site

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

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Caught Commencement Easy How

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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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Believes Count Cynic Determines

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Men make counterfeit money; in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men.

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Cases Counterfeit Makes Many

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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'.

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Achievements Acts Excluded Feats

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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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Arrogant Discovered His Idea

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The most important thing in an argument, next to being right, is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent, so that he can gracefully swing over to your side without too much apparent loss of face.

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Apparent Argument Being Escape

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When we have 'second thoughts' about something, our first thoughts don't seem like thoughts at all - just feelings.

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About Feelings First Just

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

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Bed Born Embarrassing Fact

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Many a secret that cannot be pried out by curiosity can be drawn out by indifference.

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Cannot Curiosity Drawn Indifference

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

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Age Bother Calling Hear

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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

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Amount Directly Disagreeable Feel

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A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive.

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Forgive Loser Petty Rebuke

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

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Fault Generous Only People

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The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure.

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Education Leisure Liberal Liberal Education

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"22 Sydney J. Harris Quotes & Sayings

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,

Sydney J. Harris

Sydney J. Harris

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

Sydney J. Harris

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

Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.

Sydney J. Harris

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

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.

Sydney J. Harris

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

Sydney J. Harris

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

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.

Sydney J. Harris

Men make counterfeit money; in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men.

Sydney J. Harris

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

Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.

Sydney J. Harris

The most important thing in an argument, next to being right, is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent, so that he can gracefully swing over to your side without too much apparent loss of face.

Sydney J. Harris

When we have 'second thoughts' about something, our first thoughts don't seem like thoughts at all - just feelings.

Sydney J. Harris

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

Sydney J. Harris

Many a secret that cannot be pried out by curiosity can be drawn out by indifference.

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?'

Sydney J. Harris

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

A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive.

Sydney J. Harris

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

Sydney J. Harris

The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure.

Sydney J. Harris

Sydney J. Harris Quotes & Sayings

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