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

[Chris Ryser]

Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands..................................

and at whom it is aimed.

Josef Stalin





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[Chris Ryser]

A critic is a man who knows the way........................................

but can't drive the car.

Kenneth Tynan




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[Ineed Chocolate]

Good character is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.

[Chris Ryser]

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion............................................

that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.

-E.B. (Elwyn Brooks) White, New Yorker, July 3, 1944





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[Chris Ryser]

Wisdom is a variable possession........................................

Every man is wise when pursued by a mad dog,...................................

fewer when pursued by a mad woman;......................................

only the wisest survive when attacked by a mad notion.

Robertson Davies, Marchbanks' Almanac




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[Chris Ryser]

There are two principles of established acceptance in morals;...............................

first, that self-interest is the mainspring of all of our actions,...................................

and secondly, that utility is the test of their value.

Charles Caleb Colton, Lacon, 1820





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[Chris Ryser]

The only thing bad about a holiday is ...............................................

it is followed by a non-holiday.

Anon.



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[Chris Ryser]

Motivation is what gets you started..............................................

Habit is what keeps you going.

Jim Ryun





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[Chris Ryser]

A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference between ignorance and apathy..............................................

The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I dont know and I dont care.

Richard Pratt


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[Chris Ryser]

"To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes..............................................

may be the biggest mistake of all."

Peter McWilliams, Life 101




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[Chris Ryser]

"...the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life,................................


the children; those who are in the twilight of life,...................................


the elderly; those who are in the shadows of life;...................................


the sick, the needy and the handicapped."


Hubert Humphrey, from his last speech, Washington, D.C., November 1, 1977




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[Chris Ryser]

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer...............................

but wish we didn't.

Erica Jong



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[Chris Ryser]

If we weren't all crazy,.........................................

we would go insane.

Jimmy Buffett

[Chris Ryser]

They speak of my drinking....................................................

but never think of my thirst"

Scottish Proverb




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[Chris Ryser]

"Laws are often made by fools,........................................

and even more often by men who fail in equity because they hate equality:.......................................

but always by men, vain authorities who can resolve nothing.”

Michel de Montaigne






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[Chris Ryser]

To the world you might be one person, ............................................


but to one person you might be the world.

Anon.




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[Chris Ryser]

"Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change."

Confucius



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[Chris Ryser]

Those who have one foot in the canoe, and one foot in the boat, ..........................................

are going to fall into the river

American Indian Proverb, Tuscarora




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[Chris Ryser]

"How much more grievous are the consequences of anger...................................

than the causes of it."

Marcus Aurelius



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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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[Chris Ryser]

Charisma becomes the undoing of leaders..............................................

It makes them inflexible, convinced of their own infallibility, unable to change.

Peter Drucker


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[Chris Ryser]

"Friends are treasures."

Horace Bruns




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[Chris Ryser]

Learning by experience often is painful- ..........................................

and the more it hurts, the more you learn.

Ralph Banks




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[Chris Ryser]

Believe those who seek the truth,......................................

doubt those who find it; ................................

doubt all, but do not doubt yourself.

André Gide, from "Ainsi soit-il" [So Be It] (Journal 1939-1949

[Chris Ryser]

When George Washington threw the dollar across the Rappahannock River,.......................

he didn't realize he was establishing a precedent for government spending.

Harold Coffin, "The San Francisco Examiner"




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