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

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We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done

-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

[BigGuy]

You can't have everything.......Where would you keep it?

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The moral flabbiness born of the exclusive worship of the b*itch-goddess SUCCESS. That - with the squalid cash interpretation put on the word 'success' - is our national disease.

-William James, in a letter to H.G. Wells

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Hanlon's Razor:

Never attribute to malice that which canbe adequately explained by stupidity.

Anon

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Swallow your pride occasionally, it's not fattening

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Frank Tyger

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If you were graduated yesterday, and have learned nothing today, you will be uneducated tomorrow.

Source Unknown

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Too many people spend money they haven't earned, to buy things they don't want, to impress people they don't like.

Will Rogers

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A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.

Aldous Huxley

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Get to know two things about a man. How he earns his money and how he spends it. You will then have the clue to his character. You will have a searchlight that shows up the inmost recesses of his soul. You know all you need to know about his standards, his motives, his driving desires, his real religion.

Robert J. Mccracken

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The purpose in life is to collaborate for a common cause; the problem is nobody seems to know what it is.

Gerhard Gschwandtner

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Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun.

Don Marquis, The Almost Perfect State

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Self-esteem and self-contempt have specific odors; they can be smelled.

Eric Hoffer

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I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up -- they have no holidays.

Henny Youngman

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When we have nothing to worry about we are not doing much, and not doing much may supply us with plenty of future worries.

Chinese Proverb

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In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.

Sir Winston Churchill

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Nothing is ever lost by courtesy. It is the cheapest of the pleasures; costs nothing and conveys much. It pleases him who gives and ;him who receives, and thus, like mercy, it is twice blessed.

Erastus Wiman

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People may or may not say what they mean................ but they always say something designed to get what they want.

David Mamet

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Strong lives are motivated by dynamic purposes; lesser ones exist on wishes and inclinations.

Kenneth Hildebrand

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A man trying to sell a blind horse always praises its feet.

Proverb

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Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.

Abraham Lincoln

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Power in America today is control of the means of communication.

Theodore White

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Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.

Joshua J. Marine

[SharonB]

On your way back to Montreal yet????

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It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.

Walter Lippmann










This was post number 4,000 on this thread, and the date was April 10, 2013

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Each man is the smith of his own fortune.

Appius Claudius Caecus