The average man’

The average man’
The average man’s life consists of: Twenty years of having his mother ask him where he is going, Forty years of having his wife ask the same question; and at the end, the mourners wondering too.
  

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It iswith our brothers and sisters that we learn to love, share, negotiate, startand end fights, hurt others, and save face. The basis of healthy (orunhealthy) connections in adulthood is cast during childhood.
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
Themost dramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between menbut between a man and himselfwhere the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.
Learning, the destroyer of arrogance, begets arrogance in fools, even as light that illumines the eye, makes owls blind.
You only have power over people so long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's nolonger in your power he's free again.
Throughconflict we get to unity.
If a man is prodigal, he cannot be truly generous
He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a questionremains a fool forever.
Without dialogue there is no communication, without communication there is no true education.
When youcannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action youshould take choose the bolder.
Anempty sack cannot stand up.
A nation reveals itself not only by the men it honours, the men it remembers.