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The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
― Sydney J. Harris
Sydney J. Harris
Purpose
Education
The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
― Sydney J. Harris
Sydney J. Harris
Time
Relax
ur 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.
― Sydney J. Harris
Sydney J. Harris
Dilemma
Really
Remain
Happiness is a direction, not a place.
― Sydney J. Harris
Sydney J. Harris
Happiness
Direction
The two words ‘information’ and ‘communication’ are often used interchangeably, but they signify quite different things. Information is giving out; communication is getting through.
― Sydney J. Harris
Sydney J. Harris
Information
Interchangeably
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
― Sydney J. Harris
Sydney J. Harris
Regret
Tempered
Inconsolable
History repeats itself, but in such cunning disguise that we never detect the resemblance until the damage is done.
― Sydney J. Harris
Sydney J. Harris
History
Resemblance
Damage
Self-discipline without talent can often achieve astounding results, whereas talent without self-discipline inevitably dooms itself to failure.
― Sydney J. Harris
Sydney J. Harris
Self-discipline
Astounding
When I hear somebody sigh, ‘Life is hard,’ I am always tempted to ask, ‘Compared to what?
― Sydney J. Harris
Sydney J. Harris
Somebody
Tempted
If you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the problem, but the perpetual human predicament is that the answer soon poses its own problems.
― Sydney J. Harris
Sydney J. Harris
Solution
Perpetual
Human
The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
― Sydney J. Harris
Sydney J. Harris
Purpose
Mirrors
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?
― Sydney J. Harris
Sydney J. Harris
Somebody
Hard
The time to relax is when you don't have time for it.
― Sydney J. Harris
Sydney J. Harris
Relax
Time
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
Sydney J. Harris
Danger
Computers
The greatest enemy of progress is not stagnation, but false progress.
― Sydney J. Harris
Sydney J. Harris
Greatest
Stagnation
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
Sydney J. Harris
Nobody
Amusingly
A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive.
― Sydney J. Harris
Sydney J. Harris
Winner
Forgives
If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?
― Sydney J. Harris
Sydney J. Harris
Power
Indicate
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
Sydney J. Harris
Argument
Escape
Apparent
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
Sydney J. Harris
Foolish
Automatically