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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It is long and hard and painful to create life; it is short and easy to steal the life others have made.
We often pardon those who bore us, we cannot pardon those whom we bore.
You see what power is holding someone else's fear in your handand showing it to them!
Melancholy is the joy of being said.
Don'tstand by the water and long for fish; go home and weave a net.
Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.
Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things andI'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.
To be spiritual is not to reject reason but to go beyond it.
In anyfree society, the conflict between social conformity and individual libertyis permanent, unresolvable, and necessary.
Usenon-verbal communication to SOFTEN the hard-line position of others: S =Smile, O = Open, Posture, F = Forward Lean, T = Touch, E = Eye Contact, N =Nod.
Thedeeper the waters are, the more still they run.
Nothing so wonderfully concentrates the mind as theprospect of a hanging.