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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There is sweet joy that comes to us that comes to us after sorrow.
We make our friends, we make our enemies, but God makes our next-door neighbours.
The mostdramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between men butbetween a man and himself where the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.
Men are mortal, but ideas are immortal.
Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principal one was tht they escaped teething.
Labour with what zeal we will. Something still remains undone.
My fathersaid: you must never try to make all the money that's in a deal. Let theother fellow make some money too, because if you have a reputation for alwaysmaking all the money, you won't have many deals.
Conflictisn't negative, it just is.
Human beings are not perfectible. They are improvable.
Every advantage has its tax
Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with thepurpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.
Silence, along with modesty, is a great aid to conversation.