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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If speaking is silver, then listening is gold.
We arethe prisoners of ideas.
Zeal is fit only for wise men but is found mostly infools.
Conflictlies at the core of innovation.
It is long and hard and painful to create life; it is short and easy to steal the life others have made.
When you ask from a stranger that which is of interest only to yourself, always enclose a stamp
There isnothing so disagreeable, that a patient mind cannot find some solace for it.
In themiddle of every difficulty lies opportunity.
Do not despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair.
Change meansmovement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of anonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasivefriction of conflict.
The fire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than him.
Whatlies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to whatlies inside of you.