All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal.
- Topic: Conflict, Thinking
- Location: Lake Tahoe
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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Man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.
It is a hard thing to leave any deeply routined life, even if you hate it.
Abandon the idea that you are ever going to finish. Lose track of the 400 pages and write just one page for each day; it helps. Then, when it gets finished, you are always surprised.
This is the law: The purpose of fighting is to win. There is no possible victory in defense. The sword is more important than the shield and skill is more important than either. The final weapon is the brain. All else is supplemental.
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.
The quick pain of truth can pass away, but the slow eating agony of a lie is never lost.
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You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I'll rise.
I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.
Beware of allowing a tactless word, a rebuttal, a rejection to obliterate the whole sky.
Never cross a man, not afraid to die.
Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn’t have the power to say yes.
The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
Madness does not govern a country; discussion does.
If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.
You don’t have to depend on any material possessions, they depend on you, you create them, you own the one and only tool of production.
Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.
I was in darkness, but I took three steps and found myself in paradise. The first step was a good thought, the second, a good word; and the third, a good deed.
I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.
