Conflictis the gadfly

Conflictis the gadfly
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.
  

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If speakingis silver, then listening is gold.
Thepeak efficiency of knowledge and strategy is to make conflict unnecessary.
You don'trun twenty-six miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secretrecipe.
A shipin harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.
You can't go very far if you don't begin very near.
Ittakes time to save time.
The comforter's head never aches.
It is better to trust and sometimes be disappointed thanto be forever mistrusting and be right occasionally.
Power, however it has evolved, whatever its origins, willnot be given up without a struggle.
Don'tcut off your nose to spite your face.
Themost prepared are the most dedicated.
Happinessis the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a madand lamentable experiment.