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

[Chris Ryser]

"Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity presented to them. ............


They have developed the opportunity that was at hand."

Bruce Marton





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[Chris Ryser]

"Not everything that can be counted counts,.......................................

and not everything that counts can be counted."

Albert Einstein




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[Chris Ryser]

People like you and I, though mortal of course like everyone else, do not grow old no matter how long we live.......................................

[We] never cease to stand like curious children before the great mystery into which we were born.

Albert Einstein, in a letter to Otto Juliusburger




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[Chris Ryser]

"Be more concerned with your character than your reputation,..................................

because your character is what you really are,.........................................

while your reputation is merely what others think you are."

John Wooden




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[Chris Ryser]

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

we would go insane.

Jimmy Buffett




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[Chris Ryser]

"Reality can be beaten ...................................

with enough imagination."

Anon.



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[Chris Ryser]

The bamboo that bends is stronger than the oak that resists.

Japanese Proverb




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[Chris Ryser]

Every ambitious would-be empire, clarions it abroad that she is conquering the world to bring it peace,.......................................

security and freedom, and it is sacrificing her sons only for the most noble and humanitarian purposes....................................

That is a lie; and it is an ancient lie, yet generations still rise and believe it.

Taylor Caldwell, Testimony of Two Men, 1968



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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]

"I don't know the key to success,...................................................

but the key to failure is to try to please everyone."

Bill Cosby





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[Chris Ryser]

Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned...........................


They are not units but fractions.

Woodrow Wilson




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[Chris Ryser]

We all have the means to bestow on others the most lavish gifts; love, joy, peace, hope, kindness, acceptance, encouragement, laughter, forgiveness, time....................................

There is not enough money to buy them and not too little money to give them. ...............................................

The more you spend, the wealthier you become; yet nothing will cost you more than what you freely possess to give.

Eden Eliot,



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[Chris Ryser]

"The Internet is like a vault with a screen door on the back....................................................


I don't need jackhammers and atom bomb to get in when I can walk through the door."

Anon.



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[Chris Ryser]

It's kind of fun to do the impossible.

Walt Disney




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[Chris Ryser]

Habits are safer than rules; you don't have to watch them..........................................

And you don't have to keep them either. ................................

They keep you."

Frank Crane, Essays




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[Chris Ryser]

"I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday."

Abraham Lincoln



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[Chris Ryser]

"The people who oppose your ideas are inevitably those who represent the established order........................................

that your ideas will upset."

Anthony D'Angelo




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[Chris Ryser]

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

Henry de Bracton, De Legibus, 1240




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Gotta give you credit, Chris, for getting up this early every day.

[Chris Ryser]

Virtue is not left to stand alone.......................................

He who practices it will have neighbors.

Confucius, The Confucian Analects




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[Chris Ryser]

Being powerful is like being a lady......................................

If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

Margaret Thatcher





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[Chris Ryser]

"If one does not know to which port one is sailing,........................................

no wind is favorable."

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

[Chris Ryser]

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought...................................................

which they seldom use.

Søren Kierkegaard




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[Chris Ryser]

The temporary good is enemy to the permanent best.

Bill Wilson




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[Chris Ryser]

"We should take care not to make the intellect our god;.....................................................

it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality."

Albert Einstein






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