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

[Chris Ryser]

"To avoid criticism, ....................................................



do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing."

Elbert Hubbard






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[chip anderson]

"I don't necessarily vote a straight ticket in my own state because there are sometimes Democrats out there who are better than Republicans. It's hard to believe but it's true."

AuH2O

[gemstone]

George Santayana:

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

[Chris Ryser]

"You must never feel badly about making mistakes," explained Reason quietly,...............................................

"as long as you take the trouble to learn from them............................................

For you often learn more by being wrong for the right reasons than you do by being right for the wrong reasons."

Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth



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[Chris Ryser]

There are risks and costs to a program of action..............................................



But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction

John Fitzgerald Kennedy




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[gemstone]

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln.

[Chris Ryser]

The first lesson of economics is scarcity: There is never enough of anything to satisfy all those who want it................................................



The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics."

Thomas Sowell




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[Chris Ryser]

Medicine, to produce health, ...............................................


has to examine disease.

Plutarch





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[Chris Ryser]

"Freedom is not worth having ............................................................ .....


if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes."

Mahatma Gandhi




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[Chris Ryser]

The great tragedy of science -- .............................................




the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.

Thomas Henry Huxley





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[Chris Ryser]

Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal ........................................................


and equals that they may be superior....................................



Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.

Aristotle





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[gemstone]

Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.

- Plato

[Chris Ryser]

“Complaining about something without taking any action to correct it is irresponsible............................................... .......



If a condition deserves criticism, it deserves an honest attempt to change it.”

John Renesch




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[Chris Ryser]

To know a man, observe how he wins his object,............................................

rather than how he loses it; for when we fail, our pride supports;.......................................

when we succeed; it betrays us.

Charles Caleb Colton




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[gemstone]

If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
-- William Butler Yeats.

[Chris Ryser]

Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate,...............................


you are sure to wake up somebody

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow




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[Chris Ryser]

The tragedy of all this is that George McGovern, for all his mistakes and his imprecise talk about "new politics" and "honesty in government," is one of the few men who've run for President of the United States in this century who really understands what a fantastic monument to all the best instincts of the human race this country might have been,.............................

if we could have kept it out of the hands of greedy little hustlers like Richard Nixon.
McGovern made some stupid mistakes, but in context they seem almost frivolous compared to the things Richard Nixon does every day of his life, on purpose, as a matter of policy and a perfect expression of everything he stands for.

Jesus! Where will it end? How low do you have to stoop in this country to be President?

Hunter S. Thompson, from Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail, reprinted in The Great Shark Hunt





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[Chris Ryser]

"People who think by the inch...................................

and talk by the yard................................

deserve to be kicked by the foot."

Anon.




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[Chris Ryser]

"There is nothing wrong with America that the faith, ......................



love of freedom, intelligence and energy of her citizens cannot cure."

Dwight D Eisenhower, no source found




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[Chris Ryser]

We blacks look for leadership in men and women of such youth and inexperience, .................................

as well as poverty of education and character, that it is no wonder that we sometimes seem rudderless................................

We see basketball players and pop singers as possible role models.

Arthur Ashe





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[Chris Ryser]

"Finish each day and be done with it..................................

You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can.........................................

Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

[Chris Ryser]

"The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge....................................

and the dissemination of truth."

John Fitzgerald Kennedy






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[Chris Ryser]

The pessimist complains about the wind;.................................

The optimist expects it to change;..........................

And the realist adjusts the sails.

William Arthur Ward





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[Chris Ryser]

A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue.................................................


That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.

Truman Capote



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[Chris Ryser]

"Trade is much superior to piracy. .....................................


You can rob and kill a man but once,....................................


but you can cheat him again and again."

Louis L'Amour, The Walking Drum




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