Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April,...............................
winter chilling the lap of very May; ......................................
but at length the season of summer does come.
Thomas Carlyle
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Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April,...............................
winter chilling the lap of very May; ......................................
but at length the season of summer does come.
Thomas Carlyle
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"Genius is one percent inspiration...........................................
and ninety-nine percent perspiration."
Thomas Alva Edison
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Age is only a number, a cipher for the records......................................
A man can't retire his experience. He must use it.......................................
Experience achieves more with less energy and time.
Bernard Baruch
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The money you have gives you freedom;............................................
the money you pursue enslaves you.
Jean Jacques Rousseau
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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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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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Accept that all of us can be hurt, that all of us can -- and surely will at times -- fail. ..................................................
I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst, take the risk.
Joyce Brothers
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It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.
Arthur C. Clarke
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'Common sense is the guy that tells you that you ought to have your brakes relined last week before you smashed a front end..................................................
Common sense is the Monday morning quarterback who could have won the ball game if he had been on the team. But he never is. He's high up in the stands with a flask on his hip. ............................................
Common sense is the little man in the grey suit who never makes a mistake in addition. But it's always someone else's money he's adding up
Raymond Chandler
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I arise in the morning torn between a desire to save the world.............................
and a desire to savor the world. .......................................
That makes it hard to plan the day.
E.B. (Elwyn Brooks) White
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Roethlisberger argues that people who are preoccupied with success ask the wrong question. ........................................
They ask, “what is the secret of success” when they should be asking, “what prevents me from learning here and now?” ..........................
To be overly preoccupied with the future is to be inattentive toward the present where learning and growth take place. .........................................
To walk around asking, “am I a success or a failure” is a silly question in the sense that the closest you can come to answer is to say, everyone is both a success and a failure.
Karl Weick, "How Projects Lose Meaning: The Dynamics of Renewal" in Renewing Research Practice by R. Stablein and P. Frost (Eds.). Stanford, CA: Stanford. 2004.
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But you have to understand, American democracy is not like the system you have. ........................................
We're not an ocean liner that sails across the ocean from point A to point B at 30 knots. That's not American democracy. .................................
American democracy is kind of like a life raft that bobs around the ocean all the time. .......................................
Your feet are always wet. Winds are always blowing. You're cold. You're wet. You're uncomfortable -- but you never sink.
Colin Powell
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Any new venture goes through the following stages: ..............................................
Enthusiasm, complication, disillusionment, search for the guilty,................................
punishment of the innocent ...............................
and decoration of those who did nothing.
Anon.
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If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; ..........................................
but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties.
Francis Bacon
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"A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him."
David Brinkley
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Believing in people before they have proved themselves....................................
is the key to motivating people to reach their potential.
John C. Maxwell
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"A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking."
Jerry Seinfeld
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"Bad habits are like a comfortable bed, easy to get into, ..............................................
but hard to get out of."
Anon.
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Men always want to be a woman's first love.....................................
- women like to be a man's last romance."
Oscar Wilde
Happy Mother's Day
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"If there is anything that a man can do well, ...............................................
I say let him do it. Give him a chance."
Abraham Lincoln
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There are two kinds of people: .......................................
those who say to God, 'Thy will be done' .................................
and those to whom God says, 'All right, then, have it your way'.
C.S. Lewis
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My father always used to say that when you die, .............................................
if you've got five real friends, .......................................
then you've had a great life.
Lee Iacocca
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Let me remind you that credit is the lifeblood of business, .........................................
the lifeblood of prices and jobs.
Herbert Hoover, Address at Des Moines, Iowa, October 4, 1932
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There is no character, howsoever good and fine, .....................................
but it can be destroyed by ridicule, howsoever poor and witless. ......................................
Observe the a..s, for instance: his character is about perfect, he is the choicest spirit among all the humbler animals, yet see what ridicule has brought him to...............................
Instead of feeling complimented when we are called an a..s, we are left in doubt.
Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar"
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"If you don't like something, change it. ............................................
If you can't change it, change your attitude. ..................................
Don't complain."
Maya Angelou
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