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Do not speak harshly to any one; those who are spoken to will answer thee in the same way. Angry speech is painful: blows for blows will touch thee. The Dhammapada (c. BC 300)

In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the comfortable, and especially when they are comfortably, contentedly, even happily wrong. John Kenneth Galbraith, Guardian (London, 28 July 1989)

Many of us spend our whole lives running from feeling with the mistaken belief that you cannot bear the pain. But you have already borne the pain. What you have not done is feel all you are beyond...

No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut. Sam Rayburn, Lawrence Daily Journal-World

Chastity is a monkish and evangelical superstition, a greater foe to natural temperance even than unintellectual sensuality; it strikes at the root of all domestic happiness, and consigns more than half of the human race to misery. Shelley

Honorable retreats are no ways inferior to brave charges, as having less fortune, more of discipline, and as much valor. Major General Sir William Napier, Peninsular War [1810]

Creative thinking should be viewed as an essential supplement to, though not a replacement for, critical thinking. Lloyd P. Provost & R. M. Sprout, Quality Progress [August 1996]

You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time. M. Scott Peck