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

[Chris Ryser]

The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.

Adlai Stevenson

[Chris Ryser]

Ignorance is never out of style. It was in fashion yesterday, it is the rage today and it will set the pace tomorrow

Frank Dane

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The secret of good writing is to say an old thing in a new way or to say a new thing in an old way.

Richard Harding Davis

[Chris Ryser]

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

Walter Bagehot

[Chris Ryser]

We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain.

William R. Alger

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Story is the vehicle we use to make sense of our lives in a world that often defies logic.

Jim Trelease

[Chris Ryser]

We are all in this together, by ourselves.

Lily Tomlin

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A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

Len Wein

[Chris Ryser]

A banker is a fellow who lends his umbrella when the sun is shining and wants it back the minute it begins to rain.

Mark Twain

[Chris Ryser]

Everything worthwhile is a good idea, but did you ever notice there is more bad ideas that will work than there is good ones?

Will Rogers

[Chris Ryser]

No matter what you believe, it doesn't change the facts.

Al Kersha

[Chris Ryser]

It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.

Paul H. Dunn

[Chris Ryser]

The first myth of management is that it exists. The second myth of management is that success equals skill.

Robert Heller

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A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Anthony Robbins

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Anybody with a little guts and the desire to apply himself can make it, he can make anything he wants to make of himself.

Willie Shoemaker

[Chris Ryser]

Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Jesse Jackson

[Chris Ryser]

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

Henry de Bracton, De Legibus, 1240

[Chris Ryser]

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

Sir Winston Churchill

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We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.

George Washington

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A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.

Will Rogers

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There comes a point in many people's lives when they can no longer play the role they have chosen for themselves. When that happens, we are like actors finding that someone has changed the play.

Brian Moore

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The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Friedrich von Schiller

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The question Who ought to be boss? is like as Who ought to be the tenor in the quartet? Obviously, the man who can sing tenor.

Henry Ford

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No man is more than another unless he does more than another.

Miguel de Cervantes

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Research is subordinated (not to a long-term social benefit) but to an immediate commercial profit. Currently, disease (not health) is one of the major sources of profit for the pharmaceutical industry, and the doctors are willing agents of those profits.

Walter Modell