One ofthe lessons

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

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Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
Patriots always talk of dying for their country, and never of killing for their country
Keep things informal. Talking is the natural way to do business. Writing is greatfor keeping records and putting down details, but talk generates ideas. Greatthings come from our luncheon meetings which consist of a sandwich, a cup ofsoup, and a good idea
Thedays are too short even for love; how can there be enough time for quarreling?
Themost important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how toget along with people.
Civilization, in a sly way, is a suspicion that the other fellow may be right.
Whoever is winning the race will always seem to be invincible.
My fathersaid: you must never try to make all the money that's in a deal. Let theother fellow make some money too, because if you have a reputation for alwaysmaking all the money, you won't have many deals.
Conduct is wise or foolish only in reference to its results.
It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's moretrue that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted byother things than power.
Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.
I haveoften regretted my speech, never my silence.