We owealmost all

We owealmost all
We owealmost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.
  

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The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.
A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad.
Keepthings informal. Talking is the natural way to do business. Writing is greatfor keeping records and putting down details, but talk generates ideas. Greatthings come from our luncheon meetings which consist of a sandwich, a cup ofsoup, and a good idea
We make our friends, we make our enemies, but God makes our next-door neighbours.
An adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.
Arbitrary power is like most other things which are veryhard, very liable to be broken.
You can't change people, but you can channel them your way.
Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a woodengong. With trust, words become life itself.
The good rain like a bad preacher, does not know when to leave off.
I'vealways felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the numberof conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the sametopic.
To have a respect for ourselves guides our morals; to have a deference for others governs our manners.
We donot have to agree; we do need to understand.