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Sydney J. Harris Quotes: You may be sure that when a man begins to call himself a realist he is preparing to do something that he is secretly ashamed of doing.
         

You may be sure that when a man begins to call himself a realist he is preparing to do something that he is secretly ashamed of doing.


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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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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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