The aimof argument

The aimof argument
The aimof argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
  

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War does not determine who is right - only who is left
Wisdomis what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.
The happiest of people don't necessarily have the best of everyting... they just make the most of everything that comes along their way...
We mustbe part of the general staff at the inception, rather than the ambulancedrivers at the bitter end.
Consistencyis the hobgoblin of little minds.
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.
Mostpeople I ask little from. I try to give them much, and expect nothing inreturn and I do very well in the bargain.
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Conflictinvolves incompatible behaviors rather thancompetitive goals.
Usenon-verbal communication to SOFTEN the hard-line position of others: S =Smile, O = Open, Posture, F = Forward Lean, T = Touch, E = Eye Contact, N =Nod.
Resolvingconflict is rarely about who is right. It is about acknowledgment andappreciation of differences.
Nothingso completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, thanstraightforward and simple integrity in another.