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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Comedy is an escape, not from the truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.
Learning, the destroyer of arrogance, begets arrogance in fools, even as light that illumines the eye, makes owls blind.
It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that submerged truth sometimes comes to top.
Ninety-ninepercent of all problems in communications start with misunderstandings whichdevelop as a result of differing viewpoints and conditioning.
Thereis all the difference in the world between having something to say and havingto say something.
Standingin the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by thetraffic from both sides.
To sit alone in the lamp light with a book spread out before you-such is a pleasure beyond compare.
When regard for truth has been broken down or evenslightly weakened, all things will remain doubtful.
Thenumber one goal in resolving a conflict is to make sure both sides maintaintheir self-esteem.
Habit: the shackles of the free
The property of power is to protect.
Wordsare, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.