Our fear of disaster

Our fear of disaster
Our fear of disasters that may never happen robs us of the courage to meet the ills that do occur
  

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The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in thesame sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.
Concentration of wealth will never be a problem as long as we have those three great institutions for redistributing it: Taxes, wives, offspring.
Even a fish wouldn't get into trouble if it kept its mouth shut.
If youare leaning over to starboard to balance the boat against the other guy'spropensity to lean too far to port, both of you are about to get wet.
If you climb up a tree, you must climb down the same tree.
The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers most from its own limitations.
A man without imagination is like a bird without wings.
There is no knowledge that is not power.
When makinga decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous toconsider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choiceof a mate or a profession, the decision should come from the unconscious,from somewhere within ou
Twobirds disputed about a kernel, when a third swooped down and carried it off.
Human beings are not perfectible. They are improvable.
A lie has no leg, but a scandel has wings