One of the lessons

One of the lessons
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.
  

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Slander cannot destroy an honest man: when the flood recedes the rock is there.
You can't unscramble an egg.
Nine times out of ten, we are disappointed in life because we don't ask enough of it.
Thebasic building block of good communications is the feeling that every humanbeing is unique and of value.
The nice thing about meditation is it makes doing nothing quite respectable.
As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion oftrust can make trust.
The aim of education is not the specialist but the man of vision who can humanise our life by integrating emotional demands with our new knowledge
Speech is of time; silence is of eternity.
To have a respect for ourselves guides our morals; to have a deference for others governs our manners.
Hearme, my chiefs! I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun nowstands, I will fight no more forever.
Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did andit never will.
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