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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Theconventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.
It isdifficult to negotiate where neither will trust.
We often pardon those who bore us, we cannot pardon those whom we bore.
Voilence is a Just when kindness is vain
To do what others cannot do is talent. To do what talent cannot do is genius.
The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited: He must not make himself a nuisance to other people.
I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us,that the less we use our power the greater it will be.
When youcannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action youshould take choose the bolder.
We willbe known by the tracks we leave behind.
Theonly difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is the way inwhich we use them.
Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire isthat which he exercises over himself.
We knowwhat happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.