Thereis nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries thanan agreement.

Nosnowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

Theterm up has no meaning apart from the word down. The term fasthas no meaning apart from the term slow. In addition, such termshave no meaning even when used together, except when confined to a veryparticular situation... most of our language about the

Lookingfor fish? Don't climb a tree.

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerfuland the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

Thegalleries are full of critics. They play no ball, they fight no fights. Theymake no mistakes because they attempt nothing. Down in the arena are thedoers. They make mistakes because they try many things. The man who makes nomistakes lacks boldness and

The weaknesses of many make leader possible.

Insteadof suppressing conflicts, specific channels could be created to make thisconflict explicit, and specific methods could be set up by which the conflictis resolved.

If you wish to make a man your enemy, tell him simply, 'You are wrong.' Thismethod works every time.

To exaggrerate is to weaken.

One of the function of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.

Civilization, in a sly way, is a suspicion that the other fellow may be right.