Our fear of disaster

Our fear of disaster
Our fear of disasters that may never happen robs us of the courage to meet the ills that do occur
  

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Imagination grows by excercise and in more powerful in the mature rather than in the young.
A lifemaking mistakes is not only more honorable, butmore useful than a life spent doing nothing at all.
Reasonand emotion are not antagonists. What seems like a struggle between twoopposing ideas or values, one of which, automatic and unconscious, manifestsitself in the form of a feeling.
People whoare too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successful andfeel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation, or between extrinsicand intrinsic motivation...
Peoplewho can't admit they are part of the problem, will never be part of itssolution.
If you get to thinking you're a person of some influence,try ordering somebody else's dog around.
Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they getinto a position of power, corrupt power.
The property of power is to protect.
The oldbelieve everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young knoweverything.
Consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.
Icannot give you a formula for success, but I can give you the formula forfailure: Try to please everyone.
People say law but they mean wealth.