Sydney J. Harris Quotes About Inspirational
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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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Maturity begins when we're content to feel we're right about something without feeling the necessity to prove someone else wrong.
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When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?'
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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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Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
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