The real purpose

The real purpose
The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking
  

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The major cause of traffic accidents is that men put into their cars as much ego as petrol.
Expreince never helps us avoid doing something foolish; it merely prevents us from enjoying it.
Thepeak efficiency of knowledge and strategy is to make conflict unnecessary.
Themost dramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between menbut between a man and himselfwhere the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.
Only freemen can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom andmine cannot be separated.
Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerfuland the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.
Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to
Patriots always talk of dying for their country, and never of killing for their country
The lust for power in dominating others inflames the heartmore than any other passion.
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.
Donot wrong or hate your neighbor for it is not he that you wrong but yourself.
Flatteryis the infantry of negotiation.