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One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star

A man can never quite understand a boy, even when he has been a boy

Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf is better than a whole loaf

It isn't that they can't see the solution. It's that they can't see the problem

I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle

A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonably