The purpose of getting power is to be able to give itaway.

Believing that soom good can be derived from every event is a better preposition than that everything happens for the best, which is assuredly does not.

Sciencecannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame thedebates about those conflicts.

Angels fly, because they take themselves lightly.

Prepareby knowing your walk away [conditions] and by building the number ofvariables you can work with during the negotiation... you need to have a walkaway... a combination of price, terms, and deliverables that represents theleast you will accept. Witho

No battle is more sorely lost that the one not fought

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.

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.

Conflictleads to less-than-adequate performance, resentments, and lack of motivation.

Reasonguides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false,and passion, good or bad.

Consistencyis the hobgoblin of little minds.

Thisduality has been reflected in classical as well as modern literature asreason versus passion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’mind and the ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of ourlives when our verbal-intellect sugges