"We can try to avoid making choices by doing nothing, .......................
but even that is a decision."
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"We can try to avoid making choices by doing nothing, .......................
but even that is a decision."
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"The entrepreneur is essentially a visualizer and an actualizer... ............................
He can visualize something, and when he visualizes it he sees exactly how to make it happen."
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"In the kingdom of the blind, .............................................
the one-eyed man is king."
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"When I retire I'm going to spend my evenings by the fireplace going through those boxes. ......................................
There are things in there that ought to be burned."
-Richard Milhous Nixon
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"In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: ................................
a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak."
-James Russell Lowell
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"An expert is someone who knows more and more about less and less, ................................
until eventually he knows everything about nothing."
-Anon.
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"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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"A good listener tries to understand thoroughly what the other person is saying. .............................................
In the end he may disagree sharply, but before he disagrees, he wants to know exactly what it is he is disagreeing with."
-Kenneth A. Wells, Guide to Good Leadership
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In George Washington's days, there were no cameras. One's image was either
sculpted or painted. Some paintings of George Washington showed him
standing behind a desk with one arm behind his back while others showed both
legs and both arms. Prices charged by painters were not based on how many
people were to be painted, but by how many limbs were to be painted. Arms
and legs are "limbs" therefore painting them would cost the buyer more.
Hence the expression "Okay, but it'll cost you an arm and a leg,"
As incredible as it sounds, men and women took baths only twice a year!
(May and October.) Women kept their hair covered, while men shaved their
heads (because of lice and bugs) and wore wigs. Wealthy men could afford
good wigs made from wool. The wigs couldn't be washed so to clean them, they
would carve out a loaf of bread, put the wig in the shell and bake it for 30
minutes. The heat would make the wig big and fluffy, hence the term "big
wig." Today we often use the term "here comes the Big Wig" because someone
appears to be or is powerful and wealthy.
"Honest criticism is hard to take, ......................................
particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance or a stranger."
-Franklin Jones
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As incredible as it sounds, men and women took baths only twice a year!
(May and October.) Women kept their hair covered, while men shaved their
heads (because of lice and bugs) and wore wigs. Wealthy men could afford
good wigs made from wool. The wigs couldn't be washed so to clean them, they
would carve out a loaf of bread, put the wig in the shell and bake it for 30
minutes. The heat would make the wig big and fluffy, hence the term "big
wig." Today we often use the term "here comes the Big Wig" because someone
appears to be or is powerful and wealthy.
This one is for Chip
"Education is what survives ..............................
when what has been learned has been forgotten."
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"A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant ....................................
may see farther than a giant himself."
-Robert Burton
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"We cannot change anything until we accept it. ..............................
Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses."
-C. G. Jung, Psychological Reflections
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To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism, .................................
to steal ideas from many is research."
-Anon.
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"With time and patience ....................................................
the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown."
-Chinese Proverb
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A clean desk is a sign of the truly laziness; someone who never wants to hunt for anything.
"Money is the most egalitarian force in society.
It confers power on whoever holds it."
-Roger Starr
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"A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history - .....................................
with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila."
-Mitch Ratliffe
The world is very different now. ....................................
For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life."
-John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Inaugural Address
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"We never know the worth of water ....................................
'til the well is dry."
-English Proverb
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"Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day.
Teach a man to fish and he will eat for the rest of his life."
-Chinese Proverb
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He that always gives way to others ...................................
will end in having no principles of his own."
-Aesop
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"Bulls make money. Bears make money. ..........................
Pigs get slaughtered."
-Anon.
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