"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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Source : Sydney J. Harris (1985). “Pieces of Eight Pa”, Mariner Books

Sydney J. Harris

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“In each little life, we can see great truth and beauty, and in each little life we glimpse the way of all things in the universe. If we alow ourselves to be enchanted by the beauty of the ordinary, we begin to see that all things extraordinary.”
“there was a time before you but I can't remember it now a time before your beauty and I were formally introduced I'm sure I lived without you but I don't remember how can't imagine living without these feelings you've produced just one glance and my life was redrawn just one word and my vocabulary changed I asked the time and you said 'what's the hurry?' you asked my name and I almost forgot”
“If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination.”

Source : "On Murder, Considered as One of the Fine Arts" (1839)
“[A difficult childhood gave me] a kind of cocky confidence. ... I could never have so little that I hadn't had less. It took away my fear.”
“You are entitled to your opinion. But you are not entitled to your own facts.”
“The world has lost a great musician who will always be an inspiration to me and those at OBEY GIANT.”
“Sharia is the most oppressive system on earth. It encourages people to lie, if it's for the benefits of Islam. It doesn't allow Muslims to leave Islam, and there's a death penalty in all the schools of Sharia against those that leave Islam. Sharia defines what jihad is.”
“You can say the right thing about a product and nobody will listen. Youâ€™ve got to say it in such a way that people will feel it in their gut. Because if they donâ€™t feel it, nothing will happen.”

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