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Sydney J. Harris (September 14, 1917 – December 7, 1986) was an American journalist for the Chicago Daily News and, later, the Chicago Sun-Times. He wrote 11 books and his weekday column, “Strictly Personal,” was syndicated in approximately 200 newspapers throughout the United States and Canada.

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Law is order in liberty, and without order liberty is social chaos.

Law, Liberty, Order

More trouble is caused in this world by indiscreet answers than by indiscreet questions.

Answers, Caused, Trouble, World

Nobody can misunderstand a child as much as his own parents.

Child, Children, Misunderstand, Nobody, Parent, Parents

All our efforts to attain immortality-by statesmanship, by conquest, by science or the arts-are equally vain in the long run, because the long run is longer than any of us can imagine.

Art, Attain, Long, Run, Running, Vain

Every rule in the book can be broken, except one - be who you are, and become all you were meant to be.

Book, Broken, Effectiveness, Except, Meant, Rule

When we inform, we lead from strength; when we communicate, we lead from weakness—and it is precisely this confession of mortality that engages the ears, heads and hearts of those we want to enlist as allies in a common cause.

Allies, Communicate, Heart, Hearts, Lead, Weakness

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

College, Education, Liberal, Mind, Place, Spend

We can often endure an extra pound of pain far more easily than we can suffer the withdrawal of an ounce of accustomed pleasure.

Easily, Pain, Pleasure, Suffer, Suffering, Withdrawal

Happiness is a direction, not a place.

Direction, Happiness, Happy, Place

Norbert Blei is a writer the way people used to be troubadours and minstrels, celebrating what he has seen and heart and felt in a deceptively simple style reminiscent of the early Sherwood Anderson. . . . Like Anderson, he is a lover, and his affection invests his writing with a singular charm.

Heart, Invests, Norbert, Simple, Writing

Life is, if anything, the art of combination. Of discrimination. Of freely picking one's own personal pattern out of a hundred choices. Not letting it be picked for you—either by the Establishment, or by the Rebels. Conformity of Hip is no better than Conformity of Square.

Art, Choices, Establishment, Hundred, Square, Squares

A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too Forgiveness breaks the chain of causality because he who forgives you -- out of love -- takes upon himself the consequences of what you have done. Forgiveness, therefore, always entails a sacrifice.

Breaks, Forgiveness, Forgives, Forgiving, Sacrifice, Takes

Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.

Brain, Fills, Knowledge, Large, Merely, Small

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

Forgiveness, Hatchet, Heartbroken, Marker, Site

People who won't help others in trouble "because they got into trouble through their own fault" would probably not throw a lifeline to a drowning person until they learned whether that person fell in through his or her own fault or not.

Fault, Faults, Helping Others, People, Probably, Trouble

Many people know how to work hard; many others know how to play well; but the rarest talent in the world is the ability to introduce elements of playfulness into work, and to put some constructive labor into our leisure.

Hard Work, Play, People, Labor, Work

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

Anger, Indicate, Power, Small, Thing, Wisdom

Many married couples separate because they quarrel incessantly, but just as many separate because they were never honest enough or courageous enough to quarrel when they should have.

Couple, Couples, Divorce, Incessantly, Quarrel, Should Have

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

Communication, Giving, Information, Signify, Things, Two

Maturity begins when we're content to feel we're right about something without feeling the necessity to prove someone else wrong.

Content, Feelings, Inspirational, Maturity, Necessity, Wrong

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