No personal battles strategy: Remember the story of President Lincoln scolding a young army officer for having a heated argument with an associate. “No man who is determined to make the most of himself,” said Lincoln, “can spare time for personal battles. Still less can he afford to take the effects, including the losing of temper and the loss of self-control. Give away larger things to which you have only an equal right; and give away lesser things even if you have a clear right to it.
It is better to give your path to a dog than be bitten by him in fighting for the right. Even killing the dog would not cure the bite.”
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