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Throughconflict we get to unity.

The good things of life are not to be had singly, but come to us with a mixture; like a school boy's holiday, with a task affixed to the tail of it.

Thereis no advancement to him who stands trembling because he cannot see the endfrom the beginning.

The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking

Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say whatyou've got to say, and say it hot.

Folly is perennial and yet the human race has survived

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.

We arethe prisoners of ideas.

The greatest prayer is patience.

Luck iswhat happens when preparation meets opportunity.

The Universe is not only queerer that we imagine, it is queered than we can imagine.