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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Human beings are not perfectible. They are improvable.
Differentfields, different grasshoppers; different seas, different fish.
Youdon't have to worry about being bit if the dog doesn't have any teeth.Success has made failures of many men.
It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's moretrue that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted byother things than power.
Ittakes time to save time.
Liberty and democracy becomes unholy when their hands are dyed red with innocent blood.
Bestill when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say whatyou've got to say, and say it hot.
I have never been able to conceive how any rational beingcould propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.
Mirrors should be able to think before reflecting the images.
Becausewe focused on the snake, we missed the scorpion.
Grantgraciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannotconquer.
Bythree methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection, which is noblest;second, imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is thebitterest.