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

[Chris Ryser]

Have a Happy Holiday Season wherever you are.......................

East - West - North or South........................

Enjoy the days with your Family, and I wish you all the best this Christmas Day

Chris Ryser





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[Chris Ryser]

America, we cannot turn back. Not with so much work to be done. Not with so many children to educate, and so many veterans to care for.....................................

Not with an economy to fix and cities to rebuild and farms to save. Not with so many families to protect and so many lives to mend. America, we cannot turn back. We cannot walk alone. .................................

At this moment, in this election, we must pledge once more to march into the future. Let us keep that promise - that American promise - and in the words of Scripture hold firmly, without wavering, to the hope that we confess.

Barack Obama, Democratic National Convention, August 28, 2008

[Chris Ryser]

Little-minded people's thoughts move in such small circles................................

that five minutes conversation gives you an arc long enough to determine their whole curve.

Oliver Wendell Holmes






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[Chris Ryser]

The budget should be balanced,....................

the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced,........................

the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled,......................

and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt...............................

People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance.

Marcus Tullius Cicero, anno 55







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[Chris Ryser]

The maintenance man is moving the thermostat in our office today...................

I started talking with him about the “Thermostat Wars” [from Dilbert comics]....................................

He told me about one office with 30 women where they could never get the temperature to an agreeable level. At his suggestion they installed 20 dummy thermostats around the office. Everyone was told that each thermostat controlled the zone around itself............................

Problem solved. Now that everyone has “control” of their own thermostat there is no problem.


Scott Adams







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[Chris Ryser]

"You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do."

Henry Ford









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[Chris Ryser]

"Power always has to be kept in check;.............................

power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security,................

is doubly dangerous."

William Proxmire






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The budget should be balanced,....................

the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced,........................

the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled,......................

and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt...............................

People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance.

Marcus Tullius Cicero, anno 55







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Sounds like this was written yesterday!

[Chris Ryser]

"All your life you are told the things you cannot do................................

All your life they will say you're not good enough or strong enough or talented enough; they will say you're the wrong height or the wrong weight or the wrong type to play this or be this or achieve this. .................................

THEY WILL TELL YOU NO, a thousand times no, until all the no's become meaningless.

All your life they will tell you no, quite firmly and very quickly.
AND YOU WILL TELL THEM YES."

Anon., Nike ad

Happy New Year 2010

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[Chris Ryser]

I had the blues..........................

because I had no shoes.............................

until upon the street,...........................

I met a man who had no feet.

Anon., attributed to several: Denis Waitley, Ancient Persian Saying, etc.







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[Chris Ryser]

"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored."


Aldous Huxley








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[Chris Ryser]

No Act of Kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

Aesop









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[Chris Ryser]

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe..................................

If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened.......................

But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

Friedrich Nietzsche







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[Chris Ryser]

All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions..................................

All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. ....................................

Consequently the first condition of progress is the removal of censorships.

There is the whole case against censorships in a nutshell.

George Bernard Shaw, Preface to Mrs. Warren's Profession







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[Chris Ryser]

"When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second...........................

When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour..................................

That's relativity."

Albert Einstein, On relativity








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[Chris Ryser]

A man's ethical behavior should be based effectively on sympathy, education, and social relationships; no religious basis is necessary..............................

Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.

Albert Einstein, "New York Times Magazine", November 9, 1930

[Chris Ryser]

"The world is so fast that there are days when the person who says it can't be done...................................

is interrupted by the person who is doing it."

Anon.







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[Chris Ryser]

"To do two things at once is to do neither."

Publilius Syrus








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[Chris Ryser]

When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long............................

Take the reason of the thing into your mind and then look forward...............................

Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.

Hugh White





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[Chris Ryser]

"We must have strong minds,......................................

ready to accept facts as they are."


Harry S Truman









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[Chris Ryser]

If you go in for argument, take care of your temper..................................

Your logic, if you have any, will take care of itself.

Joseph Farrell







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[Chris Ryser]

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

those who say to God, 'Thy will be done'...............................

and those to whom God says, 'All right, then, have it your way'.

C.S. Lewis







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[Chris Ryser]

Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity;...........................

whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger.................................

The two are inseparable. They go together.

Earl Nightingale









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[Chris Ryser]

Poverty is uncomfortable;..........................................

but 9 times out of 10 the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and be compelled to sink or swim.

James Garfield







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[Chris Ryser]

Persistence is to the character of man .................................

as carbon is to steel.


Napoleon Hill









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