Nothing so wonderfully

Nothing so wonderfully
Nothing so wonderfully concentrates the mind as theprospect of a hanging.
  

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Dig a well before you are thirsty.
The most exquisite paradox… as soon as you give itall up, you can have it all. As long as you want power, you can't have it.The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamedpossible.
Whenyou lose, don't lose the lesson.
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.
No onecan persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that canonly be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either byargument or emotional appeal.
Politicians are like ships; noisiest when lost in a fog.
The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in thesame sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.
It'sgood to shut up sometimes.
It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to loseliberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.
Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used toprotect the innocent.
Theharder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.
Watching small men at work reconciles to the great.