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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Luck iswhat happens when preparation meets opportunity.
Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say whatyou've got to say, and say it hot.
Superioty and inferiority are individual, not racial or national.
One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not tomake a mess of life.
Be yourself and speak your mind today, though it contradicts all you have said before.
It seemedrather incongruous that in a society of super sophisticated communication, weoften suffer from a shortage of listeners.
Toevery answer you can find a new question.
Old wood best of burn, old friend to trust and old authors to read.
Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables himto do easily some feat impossible to any other.
Negotiatingin the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties are more anxious to agreethan to disagree.
It isthe acid test of nonviolence that in a nonviolent conflict there is no rancorleft behind, and in the end the enemies are converted into friends.
Duringthe Depression, or back when we were fighting Hitler, people didn't have timeto sue a company if the coffee was too hot. There were urgent, pressingproblems. If you think you have it tough, read history books.