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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Everything is worth what its purchaser will pay for it.

Publilius Syrus

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Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

W. Somerset Maugham

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The world is so fast that there are days when the person who says it can't be done is interrupted by the person who is doing it.

Anon.

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I have a memory like an elephant. In fact, elephants often consult me.

Noel Coward

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When little is done, little is said; silence is the mother of truth.

Benjamin Disraeli

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It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.

Arnold J. Toynbee

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Great ideas need landing gear as well as wings.

C. O. Jackson

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Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow up.

Tryon Edwards

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People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all.

Source Unknown

[Chris Ryser]

All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else.

Plato

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A farmer who had a quarrelsome family called his sons and told them to lay a bunch of sticks before him. Then, after laying the sticks parallel to one another and binding them, he challenged his sons, one after one, to pick up the bundle and break it. They all tried, but in vain. Then, untying the bundle, he gave them the sticks to break one by one. This they did with the greatest ease. Then said the father, Thus, my sons, as long as you remain united, you are a match for anything, but differ and separate, and you are undone.

Aesop

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The weather is like the government, always in the wrong.

Jerome K. Jerome

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Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.

Henry Luce

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I might say that what amateurs call a style is usually only the unavoidable awkwardness in first trying to make something that has not heretofore been made.

Ernest Hemingway

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Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.

Washington Irving

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Every sale has five basic obstacles: no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust. Zig Ziglar

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It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.

Benjamin Franklin

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Listening well and answering well is one of the greatest perfections that can be obtained in conversation.

Francois de la Rochefoucauld

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I have always wanted to be somebody, but I see now I should have been more specific.

Lily Tomlin

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The drop hollows the stone not by force but by often falling.

Latin: Gulta cavat lapidem non vi sed saepe cadendo

Ovid

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It is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so

Josh Billings

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There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.

Francois de la Rochefoucauld

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I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Robert H. Schuller

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Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.

Dag Hammarskjold