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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Myfather said: you must never try to make all the money that's in a deal. Letthe other fellow make some money too, because if you have a reputation foralways making all the money, you won't have many deals.
Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be won, through understanding. Our longingfor understandingis Eternal.
Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness.
Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.
Conflictis inevitable, but combat is optional.
A hard job is one which leaves a fellow as tired before week-end as after.
The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking
Don'thate, it's too big a burden to bear.
Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
A foolshows his annoyance at once, but a prudent man overlooks an insult.
Civilization has made the peasantry its pack animal.
He whois unable to dance says the yard is stony.