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[Chris Ryser]

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can reach. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries and predecessors; try to be better than yourself.

Source Unknown











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[Chris Ryser]

A cause a day keeps reality away.

Jim Fraser










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[Chris Ryser]

The first law of dietetics seems to be if it tastes good, its bad for you.

Isaac Asimov










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[Chris Ryser]

Successful people are not gifted; they just work hard, then succeed on purpose.

G. K. Nielson









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[Chris Ryser]

To be good is noble, but to teach others how to be good is nobler and less trouble.

Mark Twain











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[Chris Ryser]

The giants of the race have been men of concentration, who have struck sledge-hammer blows in one place until they have accomplished their purpose. The successful men of today are men of one overmastering idea, one unwavering aim, men of single and intense purpose.

Orison Swett Marden









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[Chris Ryser]

The superior doctor prevents sickness; The mediocre doctor attends to impending sickness; The inferior doctor treats actual sickness;

Chinese Proverb










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[Chris Ryser]

Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act.

George W. Crane









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[Chris Ryser]

The basic rule of free enterprise: You must give in order to get.

Scott Alexander








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[Chris Ryser]

Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have is this. When I have a subject in mind. I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me. My mind becomes pervaded with it... the effort which I have made is what people are pleased to call the fruit of genius. It is the fruit of labor and thought.

Alexander Hamilton







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[Chris Ryser]

Happy are those who dare courageously to defend what they love.

Ovid







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[Chris Ryser]

In every part and corner of our life, to lose oneself is to be a gainer; to forget oneself is to be happy.

Robert Louis Stevenson, Old Mortality, Memories and Portrait, 1887








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[Chris Ryser]

Once we know our weaknesses they cease to do us any harm.

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenberg










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[Chris Ryser]

I never knew what real happiness was until I got married and by then it was too late.

Max Kauffman








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[Chris Ryser]

Stop the habit of wishful thinking and start the habit of thoughtful wishes.

Mary Martin








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[Chris Ryser]

Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.

Eric Hoffer









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[Chris Ryser]

Make a customer, not a sale.

Katherine Barchetti







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[Chris Ryser]

Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.

Isaac Asimov











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[Chris Ryser]

Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three major categories -- those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost.

Russell Baker










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[Chris Ryser]

Experience is a private, and a very largely speechless affair.

James Baldwin







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[Chris Ryser]

A winner makes commitment. A loser makes promises.

Source Unknown









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[Chris Ryser]

Anyone can be polite to a king. It takes a gentleman to be polite to a beggar.

Source Unknown









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[Chris Ryser]

His reputation is what men say he is. That can be damaged; but reputation is for time, character is for eternity.

John B. Gough








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[Chris Ryser]

What the eye does not admire the heart does not desire.

Proverb










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[Chris Ryser]

There are only two creatures of value on the face of the earth: those with the commitment, and those who require the commitment of others.

John Adams








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