Thedifference between

Thedifference between
Thedifference between the right word and the almost right word is the differencebetween lightning and a lightning bug.
  

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Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily basedon mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.
We owealmost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.
By tryingoften, the monkey learns to jump from the tree.
Adversityis the foundation of virtue.
The possession of power over others in inherently destructiveboth to the possessor of the power and to those over whom it is exercised.
Self-trust is the first secret of success.
The oldbelieve everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young knoweverything.
A teacher as a person is more important than a teacher as a technician. What he is has more effect than anything he does.
Compromise,n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.
Of all human foibles love of living is the most powerful.
If your desires be endless, your cares and fears will be so too.
It ishard to change our point of view in a conflict. Most often, it is because weare not nearly as interested in resolving the conflict and possibly creatinga new ‘pearl’ as we are in being right.