Remembernot only to

Remembernot only to
Remembernot only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
  

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We do not err because the truth is difficult to see. We err because this is more comfortable
Sciencecannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame thedebates about those conflicts.
The true test of intelligence is not how much people know how to do, but how they behave when they don't know what to do.
A shipin harbor is safe, but that is not what ships arebuilt for.
In God we trust; all others pay cash.
Trust exists; only lies are invented.
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.
Nothingstrengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individualresponsibility.
The deeper the waters are, the more still they run.
Almost all four faults are more pardonable than the methods we think up to hide them
Compromise.Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.
Extremiststhink communication means agreeing with them.