Patriotism is not

Patriotism is not
Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outbrust of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.
  

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Money is what things run into and people run out of
Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.
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.
Whendealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic,but creatures of emotion.
It is better to trust and sometimes be disappointed thanto be forever mistrusting and be right occasionally.
Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's moretrue that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted byother things than power.
Thereare no secrets. There is no mystery. There is only common sense.
Freedom to learn is the first necessity of guaranteeing that man himself shall be self-reliant enough to be free
First-rate men employ first-rate men; second-rate men employ third-rate men.
You can't go very far if you don't begin very near.
We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it