The first duty of

The first duty of
The first duty of love is to listen.
  

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Thepeak efficiency of knowledge and strategy is to make conflict unnecessary.
Duringthe Depression, or back when we were fighting Hitler, people didn't have timeto sue a company if the coffee was too hot. There were urgent, pressingproblems. If you think you have it tough, read history books.
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain isnot due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you havethe power to revoke at any moment.
Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimelyinterchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.
Onemust talk little and listen much.
One person with a belief is a social power equal to nintynine who have only interest.
The man who says he's too old to learn new tricks probably always was.
If an enemyis annoying you by playing well, consider adopting his strategy.
Theconventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.
If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escapea hundred days of sorrow.
To be preparedis half the victory.
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.