The civilisation of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.

You can have power over people as long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he'sno longer in your power.

Well-managed,cooperative conflict contributes to the productivity and innovativeness oforganizations and the competence and well-being of people.

A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.

Acreaking door hangs long on its hinges.

Unselfishness is more paying,only people have not the patience to practice it.

Icannot divine how it happens that the man who knows the least is the mostargumentative.

The best prophet is common sense, our native wit.

The cliche that education never ends virtually ensures that it does'nt begin.

A smallbenefit obtained is better than a great one in expectation.

In oneof our concert grand pianos, 243 taut strings exert a pull of 40,000 poundson an iron frame. It is proof that out of great tension may come great harmony.

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