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

[Chris Ryser]

"A real friend is one who walks in ...........................................







when the rest of the world walks out."


Anon.





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[Chris Ryser]

"Well, dinner would have been splendid…................................


if the wine had been as cold as the soup, the beef as rare as the service, .............


the brandy as old as the fish, ..................................................



and the maid as willing as the Duchess."

Sir Winston Churchill





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[Chris Ryser]

Wisdom is a variable possession. Every man is wise when pursued by a mad dog, ....................................................


fewer when pursued by a mad woman; only .......................................



the wisest survive when attacked by a mad notion.

Robertson Davies, Marchbanks' Almanac





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[Chris Ryser]

We make our world significant by the courage of our questions...................................................







and by the depth of our answers.

Carl Sagan, Cosmos (page: 193), 1980



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[Chris Ryser]

There is all the difference in the world between treating people equally .............................................






and attempting to make them equal.

Friedrich A. Hayek




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[Chris Ryser]

The nail that stands out ....................................................






will be hammered down.

Japanese Proverb




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[Chris Ryser]

"There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence ...............................................






and more sense than we have."

Don Herold




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[Chris Ryser]

In the business world an executive knows something about everything, ..........................................



a technician knows everything about something -........................................



and the switchboard operator knows everything.

Harold Coffin, quoted in "The Peter Pyramid," by Laurence J. Peter



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[Chris Ryser]

"Work is the true elixir of life. ......................................................


The busiest man is the happiest man............................................



Excellence in any art or profession is attained only by hard and persistent work. Never believe that you are perfect. ...............................................


When a man imagines, even after years of striving, that he has attained perfection, his decline begins."

Sir Theodore Martin, Said at reaching the age of 92



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[Chris Ryser]

"Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless ........................................





that for some people it is a complete substitute for life."

Andrew Brown





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[Chris Ryser]

There is all the difference in the world between treating people equally ............................................







and attempting to make them equal.

Friedrich A. Hayek




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[Chris Ryser]

"Motivation is everything. ............................................

You can do the work of two people, but you can't be two people. .......................................




Instead, you have to inspire the next guy down the line and get him to inspire his people. "

Lee Iacocca





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[Chris Ryser]

"The world is a dangerous place to live, ......................................


not because of the people who are evil, ......................................



but because of the people who don't do anything about it."

Albert Einstein




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[Chris Ryser]

If a task has once begun........................................

Never leave it till it's done....................................

Be the labor great or small.........................................

Do it well or not at all.

Anon.





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[Bender of Light]

"A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance"

[Chris Ryser]

The Belief that man is outfitted with an immortal soul, differing altogether from the engines which operate the lower animals,...........................

is ridiculously unjust to them.


The difference between the smartest dog and the stupidest man—say a Tennessee Holy Roller—is really very small, ................................

and the difference between the decentest dog and the worst man is all in favor of the dog.

H. L. Mencken



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[Chris Ryser]

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, ......................................





it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

Oscar Wilde




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[Chris Ryser]

"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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[Chris Ryser]

"Inflation is the one form of taxation ............................................................ ....







that can be imposed without legislation."

Milton Friedman



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[Chris Ryser]

"Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, .................................................







but they can also lie and make their lies come true."

Eric Hoffer



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[johnnyoptical]

To a hammer, everything looks like a nail. - Anon.


Beautiful things grown in ditches. - Anon.

[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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[Chris Ryser]

Do not fear the enemy, for your enemy can only take your life. .........................................................

It is far better that you fear the media, for they will steal your HONOR. ................................

That awful power, the public opinion of a nation, is created in America by a horde of ignorant, self-complacent simpletons who failed at ditching and shoemaking and fetched up in journalism on their way to the poorhouse.

Mark Twain




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[Chris Ryser]

"The secret to creativity is knowing..................................................... ....






how to hide your sources."

Albert Einstein





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[Chris Ryser]

The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast:.................................................. .....................




the chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.

Anon.





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