Far better to

Far better to
Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to
  

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It's good to shut up sometimes.
No matterhow thin you make a pancake, it always has two sides.
The mostdramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between men butbetween a man and himself where the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.
The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me,never say ‘I.’ And that's not because they have trainedthemselves not to say ‘I.’ They don't think ‘I.’ Theythink ‘we’; they think ‘team.’ They understand theirjob to be to make the team function. They
Humour is a hole that lets the sawdust out of a stuffed shirt.
A quiettongue shows a wise head.
Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believingas we already do.
There are two kind of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. try to be in the first group; there is a less competition there.
Bekind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
Thedifference between the right word and the almost right word is the differencebetween lightning and a lightning bug.
The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited: He must not make himself a nuisance to other people.
To have a respect for ourselves guides our morals; to have a deference for others governs our manners.