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Our patience will achieve more than our force.

We ownalmost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.

A mistake in judgement isn't fatal, but too much anxiety about judgement is.

There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.

Thedifference between the right word and the almost right word is the differencebetween lightning and a lightning bug.

Resolvingconflict is rarely about who is right. It is about acknowledgment andappreciation of differences.

A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations, is really an uncreative mind.

Inbusiness, you don't get what you deserve, you get what you negotiate.

Optimists and pessimists have one fault in common: they are afraid of the truth.

To understand everything is to forgive everything.