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Peoplewho are only good with hammers see every problem as a nail.

Be notdisturbed at being misunderstood; be disturbed at not understanding.

We owealmost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

Search not a wound too deep lest thou maketh a new one.

Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a woodengong. With trust, words become life itself.

Old men are dangerous; it does not matter to them what is going to happen to the world.

The average man’s life consists of: Twenty years of having his mother ask him where he is going, Forty years of having his wife ask the same question; and at the end, the mourners wondering too.

The property of power is to protect.

He whotalks incessantly, talks nonsense.

There is something monstrous in commands couched in invented and unfamiliar language, an alien master is the worst of all. The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.