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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Hear me,my chiefs! I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun nowstands, I will fight no more forever.
Thewill to win is worthless if you do not have the will to prepare.
Beforeyou build a better mousetrap, make sure you have some mice out there.
The hearthas arguments with which the logic of mind is not acquainted.
Sometimes the man of action is the fellow who has just got both his feat in hot water.
Thereverse side also has a reverse side.
Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire isthat which he exercises over himself.
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The spokenword belongs half to him who speaks, and half to him who listens.
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Two man looks out through the same bars: the one sees the mud, the one the stars.