One of the lessons

One of the lessons
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.
  

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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
To live is, in itself, avalue judgement. To breathe is to judge.
Personal responsibility is too fiscal accountability as lovemaking is to a gynaecological examination
Treat peopleas if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what theyare capable of being.
A merefriend will agree with you, but a real friend will argue.
A gem is not polished without rubbing, nor is a man perfected without trials.
What matter is not to add years to your life but to add life to your years.
Thegalleries are full of critics. They play no ball, they fight no fights. Theymake no mistakes because they attempt nothing. Down in the arena are thedoers. They make mistakes because they try many things. The man who makes nomistakes lacks boldness and
In thebusiness world, everyone is always working at legitimate cross purposes,governed by self interest.
Beholdthe turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.
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.
Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since atleast half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.