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

[Chris Ryser]

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

Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

Dale Carnegie





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[Chris Ryser]

I love it when someone insults me. ................................

That means I don't have to be nice anymore.

Billy Idol





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[Chris Ryser]

Habit is a cable; we weave a thread each day,....................................

and at last we cannot break it.

Horace Mann




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[Chris Ryser]

Chocolate, men, coffee..........................................

- some things are better rich.

Anon.


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[Chris Ryser]

"To succeed in politics, ...............................................

it is often necessary to rise above your principles."

Anon.



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[Chris Ryser]

Every plant knows this: ...................................................

It’s only when you get crap thrown on you that you really start to grow

Scott Sorrell




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[Chris Ryser]

The biggest danger for a politician is to shake hands with a man who is physically stronger,...........................................

has been drinking and is voting for the other guy.

William Proxmire, In NY "Herald Tribune", February 16, 1964





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[Chris Ryser]

The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar ...............................................

which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.

Thomas Hardy



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[Chris Ryser]

"When I tell the truth,.............................................

it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, ..........................................

but for the sake of defending those that do."

William Blake




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[Chris Ryser]

The first human being who hurled an insult instead of a stone...............................

was the founder of civilization.

Sigmund Freud





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[Chris Ryser]

"Ability may get you to the top,................................................

but it takes character to keep you there."

John Wooden



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[Chris Ryser]

Don't talk unless you can improve the silence.....................................

Jorge Luis Borges




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[Chris Ryser]

Only after the last tree has been cut down,
only after the last river has ben poisoned,
only after the last fish has been caught,
only then will you find that money cannot be eaten.

American Indian Proverb, Cree Indian Prophecy





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[Chris Ryser]

If you aren't fired with enthusiasm..........................................

you will be fired with enthusiasm.

Vince Lombardi





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[Chris Ryser]

"Genius is one percent inspiration ...............................................

and ninety-nine percent perspiration."

Thomas Alva Edison




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[Chris Ryser]

We have more information now than we can use, ..................................

and less knowledge and understanding than we need. Indeed, we seem to collect information because we have the ability to do so, ................

but we are so busy collecting it that we haven't devised a means of using it. ............................................

The true measure of any society is not what it knows but what it does with what it knows.

Warren Bennis





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[Chris Ryser]

Success isn't something you have to get, ...............................

its just the automatic consequence of integrity. ...........................

If you're the best carpenter around, you don't have to advertise.

David R. Hawkins





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[Chris Ryser]

The Four Rules of Life:..............................

1. Show Up
2. Pay Attention
3.Tell the Truth

4. Don't be upset at the results.

Joan Borysenko




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[Chris Ryser]

It has always seemed strange to me......................................

The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. ....

And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success.

John Steinbeck, Cannery Row




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[Chris Ryser]

'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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[Chris Ryser]

The American businessmen, as a class, have demonstrated the greatest productive genius and the most spectacular achievements ever recorded in the economic history of mankind. .......................................

What reward did they receive from our culture and its intellectuals? ..............................

The position of a hated, persecuted minority. The position of a scapegoat for the evils of the bureaucrats.

Ayn Rand


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[Chris Ryser]

The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures; ...................................................

but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.

Mark Twain, What Is Man?





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[Chris Ryser]

"In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, .....................................

the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, ...................

in the long run, the easiest."

Henry Miller, The Books in My Life

[Chris Ryser]

“It is no crime to be ignorant of economics, which is, after all, a specialized discipline......................................

and one that most people consider to be a ‘dismal science.’ .....................................

But it is totally irresponsible to have a loud and vociferous opinion on economic subjects while remaining in this state of ignorance.”

Murray N. Rothbard





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[Chris Ryser]

The real danger is the gradual erosion of individual liberties through automation, .......................................

integration, and interconnection of many small, separate record-keeping systems, ...................................

each of which alone may seem innocuous, even benevolent, and wholly justifiable.

Anon., U. S. Privacy Study Commission, 1977




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