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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Do not tell me the problem is a difficult one. If it were not difficult, it would not be a problem
The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.
Friendships begin with liking or gratitude-roots that can be pulled up.
Diseases are Tax on the pleasure.
Resolvingconflict is rarely about who is right. It is about acknowledgment andappreciation of differences.
One ofthe best ways to persuade others is with your ears by listening to them.
Allthings are ready, if our minds be so.
You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you willlive in torment if you don't trust enough.
Concentration of wealth will never be a problem as long as we have those three great institutions for redistributing it: Taxes, wives, offspring.
Where love rules, there is no will to power; and wherepower predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of theother.
The service we render to others is really the rent we pay for our room on this earth.
Power takes as ingratitude the writhing of its victims.
They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.