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Quotes by Sidney J. Harris

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AdviceNever take the advice of someone who has not had your kind of trouble.
DebateThe 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.
- (Columnist)
forgivenessA winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive.
- (Chicago Sun-Times columnist)
HardshipWhen I hear somebody sigh that "Life is hard," I am always tempted to ask, "Compared to what?"
- (Journalist)
IdealismAn 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.
innovationSometimes the best, and only effective, way to kill an idea is to put it into practice.
- (columnist)
IntoleranceIntolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.
little thingsIf a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?
- (Columnist)
MidlifeMiddle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, "Why not?" and the other, "Why bother?"
RegretRegret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
YouthNothing 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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