Wisdom To Start The Day,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

[Chris Ryser]

Remember, people will judge you by your actions, not your intentions. ................................

You may have a heart of gold -- but so does a hard-boiled egg."


Anon.






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[Chris Ryser]

The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. ...............................

The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.

Ralph W. Sockman






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[Chris Ryser]

He did not arrive at this conclusion by the decent process of quiet, logical deduction, ..................................

nor yet by the blinding flash of glorious intuition, .............................

but by the shoddy, untidy process halfway between the two by which one usually gets to know things

Margery Allingham





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[Chris Ryser]

A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. ................................

Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort."

Sydney Smith




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[Chris Ryser]

There are risks and costs to a program of action. .....................................

But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy







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[Chris Ryser]

Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; ............................

falsehood by haste and uncertainty.

Tacitus

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I'm a great believer in luck, ......................................

and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.

Thomas Jefferson





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[Chris Ryser]

The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd .............................................

and thinks for himself.

Archibald MacLeish





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[Chris Ryser]

"Each time you are honest and conduct yourself with honesty, ............................

a success force will drive you toward greater success. ...........................

Each time you lie, even with a little white lie, there are strong forces pushing you toward failure."

Joseph Sugarman







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[Chris Ryser]

We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, ................................

but he does not know what to create.

José Ortega y Gasset





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[Chris Ryser]

Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something.

Aldous Huxley






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[Chris Ryser]

If money be not they servant, it will be thy master. ..............................

The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him

Francis Bacon







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[Chris Ryser]

Many years ago Rudyard Kipling gave an address at McGill University in Montreal. ........................

He said one striking thing which deserves to be remembered. .......................

Warning the students against an over-concern for money, or position, or glory, he said: “Some day you will meet a man who cares for none of these things. ......................................


Then you will know how poor you are.

Halford E. Luccock





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[Chris Ryser]

The drive toward complex technical achievement offers a clue to why the U.S. is good at space gadgetry ................................

and bad at slum problems.

John Kenneth Galbraith





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[Chris Ryser]

The monster of advertisement...is a sort of octopus with innumerable tentacles. ...............................

It throws out to right and left, in front and behind, its clammy arms, and gathers in, ...................................

through its thousand little suckers, all the gossip and slander and praise afloat...

Sarah Bernhardt



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[Chris Ryser]

Coffee leads men to trifle away their time, scald their chops, and spend their money, ..........................

all for a little base, black, thick, nasty, bitter, stinking nauseous puddle water.

Anon., (The Women's Petition Against Coffee), 1674






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[Chris Ryser]

All of us could take a lesson from the weather. ................................

It pays no attention to criticism.

Anon., "North DeKalb Kiwanis Club Beacon"





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[Chris Ryser]

"When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, ....................................

but for the sake of defending those that do."

William Blake






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[Chris Ryser]

When we are planning for posterity, .................................

we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.

Thomas Paine






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[Chris Ryser]

"The early bird may get the worm, ........................................

but the second mouse gets the cheese."

Anon.

[Chris Ryser]

There are two kinds of people.............................................

those who finish what they start and so on.

Robert Byrne






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[Chris Ryser]

Before anything else, ..............................

preparation is the key to success.

Alexander Graham Bell






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[Chris Ryser]

Better a consultant who tap dances, .........................................

than a consultant who does the moonwalk.

John Alejandro King

[Chris Ryser]

The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants them to do, ...........................................

and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

Theodore Roosevelt




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[Chris Ryser]

A man of genius makes no mistakes.....................................

His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery

James Joyce, Ulysses






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