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

[Chris Ryser]

"It is better to deserve honors and not have them............................................

than to have them and not deserve them."

Mark Twain





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[Chris Ryser]

"The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, ............................

worry about the future, or anticipate troubles..................................

but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly."

Buddha





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[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]

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood................................

Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less

Marie Curie, attributed





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[chip anderson]

Concidering the form of her demise, Marie might have been better off if she had feared more and been more cautious about learning.

Chip

[Chris Ryser]

America is so vast that almost everything said about it is likely to be true, ....................................................

and the opposite is probably equally true.

James T. Farrell





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[Chris Ryser]

The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar,....................................................

instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.

Henry Ford




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[Chris Ryser]

I am an optimist, unrepentant and militant....................................

After all, in order not to be a fool an optimist must know how sad a place the world can be...................................................

It is only the pessimist who finds this out anew every day.

Peter Ustinov







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[Chris Ryser]

New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth..................................................

The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.

Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions, May, 1973





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[Chris Ryser]

One thousand days to learn;...........................................

ten thousand days to refine.

Japanese Proverb






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[Chris Ryser]

The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it,.....................................................

but that it is too low and we hit it.

Michelangelo Buonarroti, (attributed)






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[Chris Ryser]

"The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings;............................................

the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries."

Sir Winston Churchill





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[Chris Ryser]

Today enormous effort goes into convincing the American public that we're just consumers of media manipulation and sound-bites and spin doctors..................................................... ..

That we care only about ourselves, money, and "stuff". That acting out of passion and conviction "doesn't make a difference".................................

But all history shows that it does.

Bernadine Dorn





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[Chris Ryser]

If your outgo exceeds your income............................................

your upkeep will be your downfall.

Anon., attributed to Bill Earle, usually referred to as "an old saying"







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[Chris Ryser]

We must live for the few who know and appreciate us, who judge and absolve us,......................................

and for whom we have the same affection and indulgence...............................

The rest I look upon as a mere crowd...from whom there is nothing to be expected but fleeting emotions.

Sarah Bernhardt, "The Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt," ch. 9, 1977 edition.

[Chris Ryser]

Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant.....................................

that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.

Thomas Sowell






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[chip anderson]

Amen to the above!

For those of you who don't know Amen translates as:

"Truth"

[Chris Ryser]

Old people shouldn't eat health foods. ...........................................

They need all the preservatives they can get.

Robert Orben







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[Chris Ryser]

A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women,........................................

an occasional animal,......................................

and the common cold.

Ogden Nash





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[Chris Ryser]

A snowflake is one of God's most fragile creations,.............................


but look what they can do when they stick together!

Anon.





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[Chris Ryser]

No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean,.............................

for words are slippery and thought is vicious.

Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams, 1907

[won the Pulitzer Prize in 1919 after Adam's death]






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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]

The future is an unknown, but a somewhat predictable unknown..................................

To look to the future we must first look back upon the past. That is where the seeds of the future were planted.......................................

I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.

Albert Einstein, Interview, 1930





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[Chris Ryser]

No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.

Christopher Morley





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[Chris Ryser]

Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough...........................................

to get money from it.

Stephen Leacock






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