Power is no blessing

Power is no blessing
Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used toprotect the innocent.
  

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Given afair wind, we will negotiate our way into the Common Market, head held high,not crawling in. Negotiations? Yes. Unconditional acceptance of whateverterms are offered us? No.
Habit: the shackles of the free
The desire of appearing clever often prevents our becoming so.
Let us nevernegotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.
If you get to thinking you're a person of some influence,try ordering somebody else's dog around.
Two prisonerswhose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. Thewall is the thing which separates them but is also their means ofcommunication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.
I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy,even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can movethe world.
Thedeepest principle of human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
Men are cruel, but man is kind.
The spokenword belongs half to him who speaks, and half to him who listens.
One ofthe best ways to persuade others is with your ears by listening to them.
Thebasic building block of good communications is the feeling that every humanbeing is unique and of value.