Sidney J. Harris

A journalist.

1. An idealist believes the short run doesn't count.
   A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter.
   A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run.

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2. Many a secret that can't be pried out by curiosity can be drawn out by indifference.

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3. Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.

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4. Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time.
   It is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.

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5. The time to relax is when you don't have time for it.

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