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

[Chris Ryser]

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. ....................................

We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

Barack Obama



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[Chris Ryser]

"Be who you are and say what you feel, ...........................................

because those who matter don't mind, ...............................

and those that mind, don't matter."

Dr. Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel)




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[Chris Ryser]

Treat with utmost respect your power of forming opinions, .......................................

for this power alone guards you against making assumptions that are contrary to nature and judgments that overthrow the rule of reason.

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, 3.9




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[Chris Ryser]

"We create an environment where it is alright to hate, to steal, to cheat, and to lie if we dress it up with symbols of respectability, dignity and love."

Whitney Moore, Jr.





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[Chris Ryser]

The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty years later.

Louis Aragon




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[Chris Ryser]

Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared,.............................

for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.

Charles Caleb Colton




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[Chris Ryser]

It is an ancient political vehicle, held together by soft soap and hunger...................................

and with front-seat drivers and back-seat drivers contradicting each other in a bedlam of voices,..............................

shouting “go right” and “go left” at the same time.

Adlai Stevenson, On the Republican Party, 1952





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[Chris Ryser]

Quality in a product or service is not what the supplier puts in. .................................................

It is what the customer gets out and is willing to pay for. ...................................

A product is not quality because it is hard to make and costs a lot of money, as manufacturers typically believe.

Peter Drucker




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[Chris Ryser]

Without ambition one starts nothing. ............................................

Without work one finishes nothing. .................................

The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it. ..............................

The man who knows how will always have a job. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

The man who also knows why will always be his boss.

Ralph Waldo Emerson



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[Chris Ryser]

Those who prefer their English sloppy have only themselves to thank........................................

if the advertisement writer uses his mastery of vocabulary and syntax to mislead their weak minds.

Dorothy L. Sayers




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[Chris Ryser]

He who chooses the beginning of a road chooses the place it leads to. .......................................

It is the means that determine the end.

Harry Emerson Fosdick



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[Chris Ryser]

In Nevada, for a time, the lawyer, the editor, the banker, ...........................

the chief desperado, the chief gambler, and the saloon-keeper occupied the same level of society, ..................................

and it was the highest.

Mark Twain, Roughing It, 1872




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[Chris Ryser]

Life is so unfair that one is more likely to get into some sort of trouble than be rewarded if one attempts to do a good deed;................................

many times one spends time and resources to help someone only to be totally ignored with not so much as a thank you.

John P. Grier





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[Chris Ryser]

If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will, ....................................

he will reach them in spite of all obstacles.

Karl von Clausewitz





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[Chris Ryser]

The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: .............................................

decide what you want."

Ben Stein





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[Chris Ryser]

"A real leader faces the music, ...........................................

even when he doesn't like the tune."

Anon.




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[Chris Ryser]

An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes, ...............................

which can be made, in a very narrow field.

Neils Bohr





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[Chris Ryser]

The great decisions of human life usually have far more to do with the instincts and other mysterious unconscious factors than with conscious will and well-meaning reasonableness. .....................................

The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no universal recipe for living.

Each of us carries his own life-form within him--an irrational form which no other can outbid.

Carl Gustav Jung, The Aims of Psychotherapy





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[Chris Ryser]

My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, .................................

and then to say it with the utmost levity.

George Bernard Shaw






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[Chris Ryser]

The sea is dangerous and its storms terrible, but these obstacles have never been sufficient reason to remain ashore...................................

Unlike the mediocre, intrepid spirits seek victory over those things that seem impossible...........................................

It is with an iron will that they embark on the most daring of all
endeavors.........................................

to meet the shadowy future without fear and conquer the unknown.

Anon., [from a motivational poster; can be found attributed to Magellan]





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[Chris Ryser]

We don't know much about the human conscience, .............................................

except that it is soluble in alcohol.

Sir John Mortimer




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[Chris Ryser]

Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough ...............................

to get money from it.

Stephen Leacock



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[Chris Ryser]

There can be no assumption that today's majority is "right" and the Amish and others like them are "wrong." .........................................

A way of life that is odd or even erratic but interferes with no rights or interests of others is not to be condemned because it is different.

Warren Earl Burger






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[Chris Ryser]

"Victories are easy and cheap. .....................................

The only victories worth anything are those achieved through hard work and dedication."

Henry Ward Beecher






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[Chris Ryser]

A man is a critic when he cannot be an artist, .........................................

in the same way that a man becomes an informer when he cannot be a soldier.

Gustave Flaubert






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