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

[Chris Ryser]

"He who does not have the courage to speak up for his rights............................





cannot earn the respect of others."

René G. Torres



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[Chris Ryser]

We can't all be heroes ......................................








because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.

Will Rogers



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[Chris Ryser]

"The pure and simple truth ........................................







is rarely pure and never simple."

Oscar Wilde




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[Chris Ryser]

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, ......................................







it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

Oscar Wilde




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[Chris Ryser]

"Ability is of little account ..............................






without opportunity."

Napoleon Bonaparte



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[Chris Ryser]

"The eye of a human being is a microscope, ......................................








which makes the world seem bigger than it really is."

Kahlil Gibran, "A Handful of Sand on the Shore"




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[Chris Ryser]

Avoiding the phrase “I don’t have time...”, .............................





will soon help you to realize that you do have the time needed for just about anything you choose to accomplish in life.

Bo Bennett, "Year to Success"




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[Chris Ryser]

"Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many..............




to so few."

Sir Winston Churchill, Premier's review of the War


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[Sunglass Queen]

Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, chocolate in one hand,wine in the other, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming "WOO HOO what a ride"! :cheers:

[kmc]

"Don't sweat the petty things and Don't pet the sweaty things"k

[Chris Ryser]

Motivation is what gets you started.






Habit is what keeps you going.

Jim Ryun




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[Sunglass Queen]

:p Do not meddle in the affairs of Dragons - to them you are merely crunchy and taste good with ketchup!

[Chris Ryser]

hough men now possess the power to dominate and exploit every corner of the natural world, ..........................................







nothing in that fact implies that they have the right or the need to do so

Edward Abbey




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[Chris Ryser]

The human mind is like a TV set. When it goes blank, .....................................






it's a good idea to turn off the sound.

Anon.



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[Chris Ryser]

"[Advertising] is not merely an assembly of competing messages; it is a language itself which is always being used to make the same general proposal .................





It proposes to each of us that we transform ourselves, or our lives, by buying something more. This more, it proposes, will make us in some way richer............................





Even though we will be poorer by having spent our money.”

John Berger




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[Chris Ryser]

There is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to manage than the creation of a new order of things..... ...............................




Whenever his enemies have occasion to attack the innovator they do so with the passion of partisans, while the others defend him sluggishly so that the innovator and his party alike are vulnerable.

Niccolo Machiavelli, source date 1513



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[Chris Ryser]

"The fellow that agrees with everything you say .............................................






is either a fool or he is getting ready to skin you."

Kin Hubbard



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[Chris Ryser]

"Where talent is a dwarf, ....................................





self-esteem is a giant."

J. Petit-Senn, Conceits and Caprices




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[nickrock]

It's never crowded on the extra mile.:D

[Chris Ryser]

"Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, ..........................................






but a kind word is never thrown away."

Sir Arthur Helps


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[Chris Ryser]

Though men now possess the power to dominate and exploit every corner of the natural world, .................................................








nothing in that fact implies that they have the right or the need to do so.

Edward Abbey



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[Chris Ryser]

"Men show their character in nothing more clearly .......................................








than by what they find laughable."

Anon.




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[Chris Ryser]

"Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the world's work,.....................................












and the power to appreciate life."

Brigham Young


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[Chris Ryser]

Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; ..........................................







its when you had everything to do, and you've done it.

Margaret Thatcher, interview (published October 31 1987),





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[Chris Ryser]

"Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves,..........................






or we know where we can find information upon it."

Samuel Johnson




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