A smallbenefit obtained

A smallbenefit obtained
A smallbenefit obtained is better than a great one in expectation.
  

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Mandoes not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eatthem.
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.
Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.
Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.
The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty year later.
Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. WE can only record its moods and chronicle their return.
Another form of wastefulness is expenditure of words beyond the income of ideas.
Negotiatingin the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties are more anxious to agreethan to disagree.
I think we may safely trust a good deal more than we do.
Ittakes time to save time.
True,Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate acompromise.
Ninety-ninepercent of all problems in communications start with misunderstandings whichdevelop as a result of differing viewpoints and conditioning.