Conflict is the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. It instigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplike passivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.
"The power of a story is that it can make the unfamiliar familiar."
It is indeed an opinion strangely prevailing amongst men, that houses, mountains, rivers, and in a word all sensible objects, have an existence, natural or real, distinct from their being perceived by the understanding.
We must balance the need for energy with the need to protect the environment.
Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.
The market doesn’t reward you for being right, it rewards you for being profitable.