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[Chris Ryser]

Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a
while, or the light won't come in.

Alan Alda










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[Chris Ryser]

One thousand days to learn; ten thousand days to refine.

Japanese Proverb








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[Chris Ryser]

Children smile on the average 400 times/day; Adults: 15 times/day. Ever wonder why?

Source Unknown











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[Chris Ryser]

Value is the most invincible and impalpable of ghosts, and comes and goes unthought of while the visible and dense matter remains as it was.

W. Stanley Jevons








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[Chris Ryser]

I learned more about the economy from one South Dakota dust storm that I did in all my years of college.

Hubert Humphrey









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[Chris Ryser]

Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.

Horace Mann









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[Chris Ryser]

The hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn.

David Russell











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[Chris Ryser]

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

H. L. Mencken








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[Chris Ryser]

Anybody who ask for advice nowadays just hasn't been listening.

Source Unknown








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[Chris Ryser]

Reasoning draws a conclusion, but does not make the conclusion certain, unless the mind discovers it by the path of experience.

Roger Bacon






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[Chris Ryser]

The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.

Albert Einstein







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[Chris Ryser]

Why is it when we talk to God, we're praying, but when God talks to us, we're schizophrenic?

Lily Tomlin








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[Chris Ryser]

Merit is often an obstacle to fortune; the reason is it produces two bad effects, envy and fear.

Proverb







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[Chris Ryser]

My father told me that if you saw a man in a Rolls Royce you could be sure he was not a gentleman unless he was the chauffeur.

Earl of Arran








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[Chris Ryser]

If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.

Marcus Tullius Cicero








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[Chris Ryser]

Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.

Benjamin Franklin








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[Chris Ryser]

Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.

Samuel Johnson








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[Chris Ryser]

Just as white light consists of colored rays, so reverence for life contains all the components of ethics: love, kindliness, sympathy, empathy, peacefulness and power to forgive.

Albert Schweitzer







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[Chris Ryser]

Even though these technological advances originally sought to control information and bring order to the office, in many instances they have done just the opposite. The electronic office promised to reduce paper work and lessen work loads, but it has, in fact, generated more information that must sill be printed and -even more challenging-be assimilated. Since computers entered office systems, paper utilization has increased six-fold.

Peter D. Moore










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[Chris Ryser]

Expansion means complexity and complexity decay.

C. Northcote Parkinson










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[Chris Ryser]

The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it will contract.

Oliver Wendell Holmes












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[Chris Ryser]

Most of us ask for advice when we know the answer but we want a different one.

Ivern Ball











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[Chris Ryser]

Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus










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[Chris Ryser]

There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.

Logan Pearsall Smith







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[Chris Ryser]

Delegating means letting others become the experts and hence the best

Timothy Firnstahl









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