The laws of life

The laws of life
The laws of life are founded on necessity, its charms on the non-essentials.
  

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I think I could sum up my position on this with therecitation of a brief Russian proverb ‘Doveryai no Proveryai.’ Itmeans trust but verify.
The oldbelieve everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young knoweverything.
Given afair wind, we will negotiate our way into the Common Market, head held high,not crawling in. Negotiations? Yes. Unconditional acceptance of whateverterms are offered us? No.
The possession of power over others in inherently destructiveboth to the possessor of the power and to those over whom it is exercised.
Bring ideas in and treat them royally,for one of them may be the king.
You can't change people, but you can channel them your way.
Habit: the shackles of the free
Sometimesone pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
Liberty and democracy becomes unholy when their hands are dyed red with innocent blood.
Themost dramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between menbut between a man and himselfwhere the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.
Do not wrong or hate your neighbor for it is not hethat you wrong but yourself.
Conscientious men are, almost everywhere, less encouraged than less to lerated.