It is a lesson

It is a lesson
It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to puttrust in ideas, and not in circumstances.
  

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We own almostall our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.
To know how to free oneself is nothing: the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.
Civilization, in a sly way, is a suspicion that the other fellow may be right.
Life is progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.
Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but bystriking true.
Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.
We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.
Never ask a barber if you need a haircut.
Assumptionof cooperative goals leads to viewing the conflict as a common problem to besolved for mutual benefit.
Byfailing to prepare you are preparing to fail.
You'rein a much better position to talk with people when they approach you thanwhen you approach them.