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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Twobirds disputed about a kernel, when a third swooped down and carried it off.
The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.
Oursubconscious minds have no sense of humor, play no jokes, and cannot tell thedifference between reality and an imagined thought or image. What wecontinually think about eventually will manifest in our lives.
Silence is argument carried out by other means.
I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted intoenergy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that canmove the world.
He whocannot agree with his enemies is controlled by them.
Prejudice is a disease characterised by hardening of categories.
Treat peopleas if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what theyare capable of being.
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Conflictis neither good nor bad. Properly managed, it is absolutely vital.
Hatred does not not cease by hatred; but only by rule; this is the eternal rule.
Between grief and nothing I will take Grief.