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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Compromiseis never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and theterror of a coward.
Amarriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.
Power can be taken, but not given. The process of thetaking is empowerment in itself.
If you are standing upright, don't worry if your shadow is crooked.
The flowers of life are but illusions. How many fade away and leave no trace; how few yield any fruit and the fruit itself how rarely does it ripen!
Personal responsibility is too fiscal accountability as lovemaking is to a gynaecological examination
It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty,or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self.
A roundegg can be made square according to how you cut it; words would be harshaccording to how you speak them.
Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.
There is no comparison between that which is last by not succeding and that what is last by not trying.
The merit belongs to begineer; should his successor do even more better.
Thecompromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it iscompromising.