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«The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.»
«The time to relax is when you don't have time for it.»
«Our 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.»
«Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.»
Author: Sydney J. Harris
(Author, Journalist)
| About:
Democracy,
Power
| Keywords:
asking, persists, powers, The Powers That Be
«The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.»
«Happiness is a direction, not a place.»
«Ninety percent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves.»
Author: Sydney J. Harris
(Author, Journalist)
| About:
Self-knowledge,
Trouble,
World
| Keywords:
abilities, all the way, almost all, frailties, ninety, percent, Strangers, virtues, woe
«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.»
Author: Sydney J. Harris
(Author, Journalist)
| About:
Belief,
Idealism,
Realism
| Keywords:
believes, count, cynic, determines, idealist, long run, realist, realists, short run, The Idealists, The Long, The Long Run, The Realist, undid, undoes, undone
«A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future.»
Author: Sydney J. Harris
(Author, Journalist)
| Keywords:
cynic, disappointed, lessons, prematurely, reads
«The two words ?information' and ?communication' are often used interchangeably, but they signify quite different things. Information is giving out; communication is getting through.»
Author: Sydney J. Harris
(Author, Journalist)
| About:
Communication,
Information
| Keywords:
communication, information, interchangeably, signified, signify, signifying
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