The reason that truth is stranger than fiction is that fiction has to have a rational thread running … - Sydney J. Harris

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I like being able to just turn the microscope on a small number of people, get to know them, drop into their lives for a period of time.

Sydney J. Harris

The reason that truth is stranger than fiction is that fiction has to have a rational thread running through it in order to be believable, whereas reality may be totally irrational.

Fiction, Honesty, Running, Stranger, Truth

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The difference between patriotism and nationalism is that the patriot is proud of his country for what it does, and the nationalist is proud of his country no matter what it does; the first attitude creates a feeling of responsibility, but the second a feeling of blind arrogance that leads to war.

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The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.

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History repeats itself, but in such cunning disguise that we never detect the resemblance until the damage is done.

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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 are always too many Democratic congressmen, too many Republican congressmen, and never enough U. S. congressmen.

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People must have renounced, it seems to me, all natural intelligence to dare to advance that animals are but animated machines. . . . It appears to me, besides, that such people can never have observed with attention the character of animals, not to have distinguished among them the different voices of need, of suffering, of joy, of pain, of love, of anger, and of all their affections. It would be very strange that they should express so well what they could not feel.

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The more we expect technology to protect us from people in the same way it protects us from nature, the more we will sacrifice the very values of our society in futile attempts to achieve this security.

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He who has attained intellectual emancipation to any extent cannot, for a long time, regard himself otherwise than as a wanderer on the face of the earth and not even as a traveller towards a final goal, for there is no such thing.

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I like being able to just turn the microscope on a small number of people, get to know them, drop into their lives for a period of time.

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We don’t have the plumbing to take care of what needs to be taken care of.

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