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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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.
To exaggrerate is to weaken.
When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad.
Allthings are ready, if our minds be so.
You can't change people, but you can channel them your way.
Every man has enough power left to carry out that of whichhe is convinced.
They mayforget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.
I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy,even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can movethe world.
The split in you is clear. There is a part of you that knows what it shoulddo, and a part that does what it feels like doing.
Thewise man, even when he holds his tongue, says more than the fool when hespeaks.
I have never been able to conceive how any rational beingcould propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.