Wisdom To Start The Day ...........................

[Chris Ryser]

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience!

George Bernard Shaw

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No one that ever lived has ever had enough power, prestige, or knowledge to overcome the basic condition of all life -- you win some and you lose some.

Ken Keyes Jr.

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Fashions fade, but style is eternal.

Yves Saint-Laurent

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As you reach your goals, set new ones. That is how you grow and become a more powerful person.

Les Brown

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If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?

William Shakespeare

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In our judgment of human transactions, the law of optics is reversed, we see most dimly the objects which are close around us.

Richard Whately

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Fashions, after all, are only induced epidemics.

George Bernard Shaw

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A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.

Joey Adams

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If we decide to take this level of business creating ability nationwide, we'll all be plucking chickens for a living.

H. Ross Perot

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Choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color. Choosing your socks by their character makes no sense, and choosing your friends by their color is unthinkable.

Anon.

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If you are lonely when you are alone, you are in bad company.

Jean-Paul Sartre

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If life were measured by accomplishments, most of us would die in infancy. A. P. Gouthey

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Every man in the world is better than someone else and not as good someone else.

William Saroyan

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We've got to have a dream if we are going to make a dream come true.

Denis Waitley

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Those who do not read are no better off than those who cannot read.

Source Unknown

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Men can acquire knowledge, but not wisdom. Some of the greatest fools ever known were learned men.

Proverb

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No conquest can ever become permanent which does not show itself beneficial to the conquered as well as to the conquerors.

Thomas Carlyle

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Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.

Edwin H. Land

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Drink is the curse of the land. It makes you fight with your neighbor. It makes you shoot at your landlord and it makes you miss him.

Anon., Irish Proverb

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Litigant. A person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bones.

Ambrose Bierce

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Everyone will experience the consequences of his own acts. If his act are right, he'll get good consequences; if they're not, he'll suffer for it.

Harry Browne

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There is no virtue in being uncritical; nor is it a habit to which the young are given. But criticism is only the burying beetle that gets rid of what is dead, and, since the world lives by creative and constructive forces, and not by negation and destruction, it is better to grow up in the company of prophets than of critics.

Richard Livingstone, On Education

[Chris Ryser]

One-tenth of the folks run the world. One-tenth watch them run it, and the other eighty percent don't know what the hell's going on.

Jake Simmons

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Quality in a product or service is not what the supplier puts in. It is what the customer gets out and is willing to pay for. A product is not quality because it is hard to make and costs a lot of money, as manufacturers typically believe.

Peter Drucker

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We have in fact, two kinds of morality, side by side: one that we preach, but do not practice, and another that we practice, but seldom preach.

Bertrand Russell