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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The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited: He must not make himself a nuisance to other people.
There are questions of real power and then there arequestions of phony authority. You have to break through the phony authorityto begin to fight the real questions of power.
Of all human foibles love of living is the most powerful.
Whatlies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to whatlies inside of you.
Example is better than following it.
A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
Quarrelsend, but words once spoken never die.
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Listening,not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.
Nothing would be done at all if a man waited till he could do it so well that no one could find fault with it