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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Makesure you leave some fat for the other side.
Don't throwout the baby with the bath water.
Speak whenyou are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
Therecan be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. Hisinstinct is to blame. If he is satisfied he says nothing; if he is not, hemost illogically kicks up a row.
Icannot give you a formula for success, but I can give you the formula forfailure: Try to please everyone.
A man who doesn't trust himself can never really trust anyoneelse.
Myinterest is in the future because I'm going to be spending the rest of mylife there.
The true test of intelligence is not how much people know how to do, but how they behave when they don't know what to do.
Youcan't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come toyou. You have to go to them sometimes.
Why don'tyou want to do what you know you should do? The reason you don't is thatyou're in conflict with yourself.
When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannothurt you.
It isnot necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.