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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Every age thinks its battle the most important of all.
Better ask ten times than go astray once.
The aimof argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.
Theshallower the brook, the more it babbles.
Bargainlike a gypsy, but pay like a gentleman.
Between friends there is no need of Justice.
It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty,or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self.
In thebusiness world, everyone is always working at legitimate cross purposes,governed by self interest.
When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannothurt you.
Life without the Courage is death for slavery.
Misfortuneis not that which can be avoided, but that which cannot.