As longas you

As longas you
As longas you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down,so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.
  

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Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
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.
Negotiatingin the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties are more anxious to agreethan to disagree.
Who can say more than rich praise, that you alone are you?
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Wisdom is what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.
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The hand of liberality is stronger than the arm of power.
Old wood best of burn, old friend to trust and old authors to read.
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