Of all human foibles

Of all human foibles
Of all human foibles love of living is the most powerful.
  

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Let us nevernegotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.
When work is pleasure, life is joy.
The property of power is to protect.
Thewise man, even when he holds his tongue, says more than the fool when hespeaks.
Icannot give you a formula for success, but I can give you the formula forfailure: Try to please everyone.
Comedy is an escape, not from the truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.
A mistake in judgement isn't fatal, but too much anxiety about judgement is.
I’mwilling for any solution religious, political. I’m not going to keepoffering to negotiate so much because they turn us down each time. Itindicates a weakness on our part.
Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.
The best prophet is common sense, our native wit.
One of the function of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.
It ishard to change our point of view in a conflict. Most often, it is because weare not nearly as interested in resolving the conflict and possibly creatinga new ‘pearl’ as we are in being right.