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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Remembernot only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
When aman says that he approves something in principle, it means he hasn't theslightest intention of putting it in practice.
Two prisonerswhose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. Thewall is the thing which separates them but is also their means ofcommunication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.
Remember when feminisit movements were something men gathered on street corners to admire as the girls strolled by
When aman says that he approves something in principle, it means he hasn't theslightest intention of putting it in practice.
Truth is strengthened by observation and delay, falsehood by haste and uncertainity.
No pillow is as soft as clear conscience.
Themost important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.
Onlywhen you can be extremely pliable and soft can you be extremely hard andstrong.
One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.
Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it
Habit: the shackles of the free