Civilization, in a sly

Civilization, in a sly
Civilization, in a sly way, is a suspicion that the other fellow may be right.
  

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Adversityis the foundation of virtue.
Insteadof suppressing conflicts, specific channels could be created to make thisconflict explicit, and specific methods could be set up by which the conflictis resolved.
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.
Bestill when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say whatyou've got to say, and say it hot.
Treatpeople as if they were, what they ought to be andyou help them become what they are capable of being.
It is long and hard and painful to create life; it is short and easy to steal the life others have made.
Compromiseis never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and theterror of a coward.
I give myself,sometimes, admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.
Younever really understand a person until you consider things from his point ofview.
To do what others cannot do is talent. To do what talent cannot do is genius.
Grantgraciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannotconquer.
If you truly want honesty, don't ask questions you don't really want the answer to.