Far better to

Far better to
Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to
  

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Tell meand I'll forget. Show me, and I may not remember. Involve me, and I'llunderstand.
It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty,or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self.
Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical
Whenconflict becomes a win-lose contest in our minds, we immediately try to win.
Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness.
Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them.
Sometimesyou have to be silent to be heard.
A man who doesn't trust himself can never really trust anyoneelse.
Ignorancedoesn't kill you, but it does make you sweat a lot.
Nothing so wonderfully concentrates the mind as theprospect of a hanging.
Girls .. . were allowed to play in the house . . . and boys were sent outdoors. . .Boys ran around in the yard with toy guns going kksshh-kksshh,fighting wars for made-up reasons and arguing about whowas dead, while girls stayed inside and played with dol
The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me,never say ‘I.’ And that's not because they have trainedthemselves not to say ‘I.’ They don't think ‘I.’ Theythink ‘we’; they think ‘team.’ They understand theirjob to be to make the team function. They