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

[Chris Ryser]

"We can try to avoid making choices by doing nothing, .........................






but even that is a decision."

Gary Collins






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[Chris Ryser]

"Whether you believe you can do a thing or not,..........................






you are right."

Henry Ford





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[Chris Ryser]

"All great truths begin as blasphemies."

George Bernard Shaw






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[Chris Ryser]

"There is no such thing as a long piece of work, ...................................






except one that you dare not start."

Charles Baudelaire, Intimate Journals




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[Chris Ryser]

Tsuki ni muragumo, hana ni arashi
"Clouds over the moon, ................................






a storm over blossoms"

Japanese Proverb





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[Chris Ryser]

"What one has not experienced, ..................................






one will never understand in print."

Isadora Duncan, My Life






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[Chris Ryser]

There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence..............................





and more sense than we have."

Don Herold




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[Jason Carruthers]

What's the largest room in the world?





The room for improvement.

[Chris Ryser]

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision........................







for the limits of the world.

Arthur Schopenhauer, Studies in Pessimism





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[Chris Ryser]

Opinion is that exercise of the human will..............................






which helps us to make a decision without information.

John Erskine




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[Chris Ryser]

Failure is not reaching your goal, .....................................






but in having no goal to reach.

Benjamin Mays





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[Chris Ryser]

"To talk to someone who does not listen .................................












is enough to tense the devil."

Pearl Bailey, Talking to Myself





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[Chris Ryser]

"A man has one hundred dollars and you leave him with two dollars, ................................







that's subtraction."

Mae West, My Little Chickadee, 1940





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[Chris Ryser]

"The object of the superior man is truth."

Confucius






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[Chris Ryser]

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous,he will not bite you................












This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.

Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson





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[Chris Ryser]

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. ....................................






Now put the foundations under them.

Henry David Thoreau, Walden (chapter 18)






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[Chris Ryser]

"The fear of becoming a 'has-been' ..........................................








keeps some people from becoming anything."

Eric Hoffer, The Passionate State of the Mind, 1954






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[Chris Ryser]

"Power (n): The only narcotic regulated by the SEC instead of the FDA."

Anon.






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[Chris Ryser]

"To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, ..............................







and be nothing."

Elbert Hubbard

[Chris Ryser]

"Those who stand for nothing ......................................






fall for anything."

Alexander Hamilton





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[Chris Ryser]

"He who knows others is wise...................................






He who knows himself is enlightened."

Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching





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[Chris Ryser]

"When all men think alike, .................................






no one thinks very much."

Walter Lipman





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[Chris Ryser]

We make a living by what we get. ................................









We make a life by what we give.

Sir Winston Churchill






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[Chris Ryser]

"God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, ...........................




the courage to change the things I can, .................................





and the wisdom to know the difference."
Reinhold Niebuhr





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[Chris Ryser]

I look better, feel better, make love better and I'll tell you something else.............................






I never lied better

George Burns



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