The ear tends

The ear tends
The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.
  

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Politicians are like ships; noisiest when lost in a fog.
Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.
Patience is the art of hoping.
He whocannot agree with his enemies is controlled by them.
A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing:
Though patience be a tired mare, yet she will plod.
If Ishould ever be captured, I want no negotiation—andif I should request a negotiation from captivity they should consider that asign of duress.
Trust exists; only lies are invented.
A newbroom sweeps clean, but an old broom knows the corners.
Example is better than following it.
Theconventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.
Ifyou are leaning over to starboard to balance the boat against the other guy'spropensity to lean too far to port, both of you are about to get wet.