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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All that is sometimes needed to make you content with you lot is a bad dream.
Human beings are not perfectible. They are improvable.
The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.
Loving without dreaming is like going to Venice without riding in a gondola
The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends forwhich we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We haveguided missiles and misguided men.
There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.
Supicion of one's own motives is especially necessary for the philanthropist and the executive.
If you would know what nobody knows, read what everybody reads just after one year afterwards.
It seemedrather incongruous that in a society of super sophisticated communication, weoften suffer from a shortage of listeners.
What dowe live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other.
Neversay more than is necessary.
Education is the chief defence of a Nation.