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More Quotes by 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.
The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
The greatest enemy of progress is not stagnation, but false progress.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?
A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive.
Happiness is a direction, not a place.
Self-discipline without talent can often achieve astounding results, whereas talent without self-discipline inevitably dooms itself to failure.
Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
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.
