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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

Trust no one unless you have eaten much salt with him.

If you are patient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

What dowe live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other.

The greatest prayer is patience.

Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinksyou have.

No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independet.

In history, characters and events occur twice, first as tragedy then as farce.

Distancedoesn't matter. It is only the first step that is difficult.

Compromise.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.

Beware,as long as you live, of judging people of appearances.