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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Onemight as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as totry to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.
Always the dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits
The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends forwhich we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We haveguided missiles and misguided men.
Most ofour so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believingas we already do.
Informationis a negotiator's greatest weapon.
Neveranswer a letter while you are angry.
Thecompromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it iscompromising.
A fool shows his annoyance at once, but a prudent man overlooks an insult.
No nation is so poor that it cannot afford to gie free speech
A miserand a liar bargain quickly.
Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believingas we already do.
The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in thesame sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.