The greatest job

The greatest job
The greatest job of teachers is to cultivate talent until it ripens for the public to reap its bounty.
  

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Truth is strengthened by observation and delay, falsehood by haste and uncertainity.
You can outdistance that which is running after you, but not what is running insideyou.
No strength within, no respect without.
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.
Themost dramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between menbut between a man and himselfwhere the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.
There are questions of real power and then there arequestions of phony authority. You have to break through the phony authorityto begin to fight the real questions of power.
The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty.
Thisduality has been reflected in classical as well as modern literature asreason versus passion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’mind and the ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of ourlives when our verbal-intellect sugges
Somewherethere is a map of how it can be done.
Whenanger comes, wisdom goes.
Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.
I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy,even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can movethe world.