Harris

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    Mother came to us destitute. She brings a child into the world, takes one look at him and promptly dies. Without leaving so much as a forwarding name and address.
    —Vernon Harris (c. 1910)

    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.
    —Sydney J. Harris (1917–1986)

    A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past; he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future.
    —Sydney J. Harris (b. 1917)