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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Whodigs a pit for others will fall in themselves.
Conflictinvolves incompatible behaviors rather than competitive goals.
Every village has to become a self-sufficient republic.
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.
He who truly knows has no occasion to shout
Communicationis a skill that you can learn. It's like riding a bicycle or typing. Ifyou're willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of everypart of your life.
Believing that soom good can be derived from every event is a better preposition than that everything happens for the best, which is assuredly does not.
A shipin harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.
The World is but, a school of inquiry.
In history, characters and events occur twice, first as tragedy then as farce.
One ofthe lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.
As longas you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down,so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.