Conflictis the gadfly

Conflictis the gadfly
Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.
  

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Allthings are ready, if our minds be so.
When a man meets his mates society begins.
Peoplespend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idledreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill theemptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed tosearch was within.
A book, tight shut, is but a block of paper.
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain isnot due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you havethe power to revoke at any moment.
Given afair wind, we will negotiate our way into the Common Market, head held high,not crawling in. Negotiations? Yes. Unconditional acceptance of whateverterms are offered us? No.
If error is corrected whenever it is recognized as such,the path of error is the path of truth.
When the defects of others are percieved with so much clarity, it is because one possesses with oneself.
Ifyou wish to make a man your enemy, tell him simply, 'You are wrong.' Thismethod works every time.
If you climb up a tree, you must climb down the same tree.
Power is a little like alcohol: the faster it is consumed, the more quickly it affects the brain.
Grantgraciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannotconquer.