Wisdom To Start The Day ...........................

Only the unknown frightens men. But once a man has faced the unknown, that terror becomes the known.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery




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The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it will contract

Oliver Wendell Holmes




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The less government we have the better.

Ralph Waldo Emerson




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Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable and to give an appearance of solidarity to pure wind.

George Orwell, as quoted in Sonia Orwell's and Ian Angus' The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell (1968)



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Motivation is everything. You can do the work of two people, but you can't be two people. Instead, you have to inspire the next guy down the line and get him to inspire his people.

Lee Iacocca



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He that seeks trouble never misses.

English Proverb




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All bodies are slow in growth but rapid in decay.

Tacitus


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If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.

Marcus Tullius Cicero




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Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.

Erma Bombeck




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To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.

Abraham Maslow




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No one is as angry as the person who is wrong.

Proverb





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You get the best out of others when you get the best out of yourself.

Harvey S. Firestone




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A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs-jolted by every pebble in the road.

Henry Ward Beecher





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There is nothing wrong with men possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches possess men.

Billy Graham




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No one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

Charles Dudley Warner




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There is such a thing as moderation, even in telling the truth.

Vera Johnson





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Men are born with two eyes, but only one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.

Charles Caleb Colton



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If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

Abraham Maslow




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The last best hope of earth, two trillion dollars in debt, is spinning out of control, and all we can do is stare at a flickering cathode-ray tube as Ollie answers questions on TV while the press, resolutely irrelevant as ever, asks politicians if they have committed adultery. From V-J Day 1945 to this has been, my fellow countrymen, a perfect nightmare.

Gore Vidal


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Youth itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

Eric Hoffer




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Never tell your story to a deaf man.

Proverb




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Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings

C. Archie Danielson



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Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.

Michael Korda




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Give just a little bit more, take a little bit less. -Justin Hayward

They had me on the operating table all day. They looked into my stomach, my gall bladder, they examined everything inside of me. Know what they decided? I need glasses.

Joe E. Lewis



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