Sydney J. Harris
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Sydney J. Harris
Sydney J. Harriswas 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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth14 September 1917
CountryUnited States of America
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Once we assuage our conscience by calling something a "necessary evil", it begins to look more and more necessary and less and less evil.
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A university is not, primarily, a place in which to learn how to make a living; it is a place in which to learn how to be more fully a human being, how to draw upon one's resources, how to discipline the mind and expand the imagination; how to make some sense out of the big world we will shortly be thrown into.
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Those who imagine that the world is against them have generally conspired to make it true.
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We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until... we have stopped saying "It got lost," and say "I lost it.