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The art of living consists in knowing which impulses to obey and which must be made to obey.

The art of living consists in knowing which impulses to obey and which must be made to obey.

Sydney J. Harris
Art, Knowing, Made
Sydney J. Harris (1972). “For the Time Being”

Why are we willing to accept a new mathematical formula we don't understand as the product of a brilliant mind, while rejecting a new art form we don't understand as the product of a deranged mind?

Sydney J. Harris
Art, Mind, Brilliant

All our efforts to attain immortality-by statesmanship, by conquest, by science or the arts-are equally vain in the long run, because the long run is longer than any of us can imagine.

Sydney J. Harris
Running, Art, Long
Sydney J. Harris (1986). “Clearing the ground”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Life is, if anything, the art of combination. Of discrimination. Of freely picking one's own personal pattern out of a hundred choices. Not letting it be picked for you—either by the Establishment, or by the Rebels. Conformity of Hip is no better than Conformity of Square.

Sydney J. Harris
Art, Squares, Choices
Sydney J. Harris (1976). “Best of Sydney J. Harris”

The art of listening needs its highest development in listening to oneself; our most important task is to develop an ear that can really hear what we're saying.

Sydney J. Harris
Art, Empathy, Listening

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