The first duty of

The first duty of
The first duty of love is to listen.
  

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I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted intoenergy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that canmove the world.
I know youbelieve you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realizethat what you heard isn't what I meant.
Arise, awake and stop not till the goal is reached.
Nothing so wonderfully concentrates the mind as theprospect of a hanging.
One cannot be precise and still be pure.
A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations, is really an uncreative mind.
In oneof our concert grand pianos, 243 taut strings exert a pull of 40,000 poundson an iron frame. It is proof that out of great tension may come greatharmony.
Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
It iswith our brothers and sisters that we learn to love, share, negotiate, startand end fights, hurt others, and save face. The basis of healthy (orunhealthy) connections in adulthood is cast during childhood.
You grow up the day you have first real laugh - at yourself
The more estimable the offender, the greater the torment.
Forbidden fruit can get us into a real jam.