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Sydney J. Harris Quotes: Being yourself is not remaining what you were, or being satisfied with what you are. It is the point of departure and far from the goal.
         

Being yourself is not remaining what you were, or being satisfied with what you are. It is the point of departure and far from the goal.


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The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, 'I was wrong'.



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



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Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.



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





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