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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If your desires be endless, your cares and fears will be so too.
Standingin the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by thetraffic from both sides.
In history, characters and events occur twice, first as tragedy then as farce.
There may be said to be two classes of people in the world: those who constantly divide the people of the world into two classes and those who do not.
Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocencethis side of the womb.
You've gotto know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em know, when to walk away, knowwhen to run.
Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of cancer cell.
The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.
Nothing so wonderfully concentrates the mind as theprospect of a hanging.
Mostpeople I ask little from. I try to give them much, and expect nothing inreturn and I do very well in the bargain.
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.
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