Renown and repose

Renown and repose
Renown and repose do not go together.
  

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A shipin harbor is safe, but that is not what ships arebuilt for.
Civilization, in a sly way, is a suspicion that the other fellow may be right.
Keep a secret; its you slave. Tell it, and it's your master.
Two prisonerswhose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. Thewall is the thing which separates them but is also their means ofcommunication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.
There are questions of real power and then there arequestions of phony authority. You have to break through the phony authorityto begin to fight the real questions of power.
Prejudice is a disease characterised by hardening of categories.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want totest a man's character, give him power.
Love is the noblest frailty of the of the mind
Suspicion begets suspicion.
They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.
Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.
No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independet.