Sydney J. Harris Quotes

Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.

Sydney J. Harris

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: journalist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 14, 1917 - December 8, 1986

Topics

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Eddy Arnold was a great friend of mine, and through the years, Eddy and I, we did a lot of shows together, and we even worked in some real estate transaction things together, and he helped me there. You know, he was a great real estate man.

Jim Ed Brown

FriendGreatTogetherManMeYou

We are made out of stardust. The iron in the hemoglobin molecules in the blood in your right hand came from a star that blew up 8 billion years ago. The iron in your left hand came from another star.

Jill Tarter

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Faith activates God - Fear activates the Enemy.

Joel Osteen

FearGodFaithEnemy

I'm from the gospel world. I grew up playing in church.

Robert Glasper

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It always hurts a bit to pick the 'wrong one' in a race as big as the Champion Hurdle, and then, to make matters worse, you go and get beat by the horse you rejected.

Tony McCoy

ChampionHorseYouWrongGoRace

In what was called the second siege of Leningrad, thousands died, but Putin and his partners in crime got rich. Then Putin killed even more Russians when he had the FSB explode bombs in apartment buildings in Moscow in 1999 to give himself the pretext to seize dictatorial powers.

Robert Zubrin

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I hate to dance. The thought of having to dance terrifies me.

Michael Trucco

HateDanceMeThoughtHaving

I feel at home when I go to London.

Didier Drogba

HomeFeelGoLondonI Feel

Change is inevitable, change will always happen, but you have to apply direction to change, and that's when it's progress.

Doug Baldwin

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You know, when I sit in meetings and things are very tense and people take things extremely seriously and they invest a lot of their ego, I sometimes think to myself, 'Come on, you know, there's life and there's death and there is love.' And all of that ego business is nonsense compared to that.

Christine Lagarde

LifeLoveBusinessMyselfDeathEgo

I played trumpet in middle school, and then I had to get braces, so I had to stop playing trumpet and start playing drums.

Brendon Urie

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Reductionism and elimination make one feel clever, but what happens when the meditator drops her fixation on feeling clever?

Timothy Morton

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