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

[Chris Ryser]

I may not be better than other people, but at least I'm different.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

[Chris Ryser]

Never be afraid to treat the path alone. Know which is your path and follow it wherever it may lead you; do not feel you have to follow in someone else's footsteps.

Gita Bellin

[Chris Ryser]

An optimist is a girl who mistakes a bulge for a curve.

Ring Lardner

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I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something.

Jackie Mason

[Chris Ryser]

Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

Jack Benny, attributed

[Chris Ryser]

It's not who jumps the highest -- it's who wants it the most

Buck Williams

[Chris Ryser]

Motivation is like food for the brain. You cannot get enough in one sitting. It needs continual and regular top up s.

Peter Davies

[Chris Ryser]

Negotiating means getting the best of your opponent.

Marvin Gaye

[Chris Ryser]

Chance is the providence of adventurers.

Napoleon Bonaparte

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The way you see people is the way you treat them.

Zig Ziglar

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The conscience is the most flexible material in the world. Today you cannot stretch it over a mole hill; while tomorrow it can hide a mountain.

Edward George Bulwer-Lytton

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Continuous excellent effort, not maximum strength or superior IQ, is the key to unlocking your potential as an achiever.

Greg Werner

[Chris Ryser]

Do not despise the bottom rungs in the ascent to greatness.

Publilius Syrus

[Chris Ryser]

Details often kill initiative, but there have been few successful men who weren't good at details. Don't ignore details. Lick them.

William B. Given

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The man who graduates today and stops learning tomorrow is uneducated the day after. Newton D. Baker

[Chris Ryser]

People nowadays like to be together not in the old-fashioned way of, say, mingling on the piazza of an Italian Renaissance city, but, instead, huddled together in traffic jams, bus queues, on escalators and so on. It's a new kind of togetherness which may seem totally alien, but it's the togetherness of modern technology.

J. G. Ballard

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Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched.

Miguel de Cervantes

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A tradition without intelligence is not worth having.

TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot

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The life of an aviator seemed to me ideal. It involved skill. It brought adventure. It made use of the latest developments of science. Mechanical engineers were fettered to factories and drafting boards while pilots have the freedom of wind with the expanse of sky. There were times in an aeroplane when it seemed I had escaped mortality to look down on earth like a God.

Charles A. Lindbergh, 1927

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Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on. George Santayana

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Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That's the way the mind of man operates.

H. L. Mencken

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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)

[Chris Ryser]

Giving The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men.

Henry Ward Beecher

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It takes little talent to see clearly what lies under one's nose, a good deal of it to know in which direction to point that organ.

W. H. Auden

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We are told never to cross a bridge until we come to it, but this world is owned by men who have 'crossed bridges' in their imagination far ahead of the crowd.

Anon.