Far better to think

Far better to think
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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Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they getinto a position of power, corrupt power.
It'snot hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.
Better ask ten times than go astray once.
Byblending the breath of the sun and the shade, true harmony comes into theworld.
Everytime we read, a seed is sown for the future.
Commonsense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
A man without patience is a lamp without oil.
Peaceis not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives forresponding to conflict alternatives to passive or aggressive responses,alternatives to violence.
Nothing is greater impediment to being on good terms with other than being ill at ease with yourself.
The art of showmanship is to give the public what is wants just before it knows what it wants.
The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty year later.
Civilization, in a sly way, is a suspicion that the other fellow may be right.