

Something is drastically wrong when a school disciplines young people
singing a prayer in school and ignores young people tattooed with
swastikas and openly praising Hitler. -- William Bennett






"The Stone"
     A wise woman who was traveling in the mountains found a precious stone
in a stream. The next day she met another  traveler who was hungry, and the
wise woman opened her bag  to share her food. The hungry traveler saw the
precious stone  and asked the woman to give it to him.
      She did so without hesitation.
       The traveler left rejoicing in his good fortune. He knew the stone
was worth enough to give him security for a lifetime. But, a few  days
later, he came back to return the stone to the wise woman.
      "I've been thinking," he said.
      "I know how valuable this stone is, but I give it back in the hope
that you can give me something even more precious.
 Give me what you have within your heart that enabled you to give me this
stone."





"Grasp the Opportunity to Manage Change, Not Avoid It. Change is the
Very Essence of Life."



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"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and
I'm not sure about the former."
- -Albert Einstein
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There are three kinds of men.  Those who learn by reading; those who
learn by observation; and the rest of them who have to pee on the
electric fence for themselves. -- The Cowboy Guide to Life





This is an interesting thought....

Never be afraid to try something new.
Remember, amateurs built the Ark.
Professionals built the Titanic.



"Colleges don't make fools, they only develop them" - George Horace Lorimer




An English professor wrote the words, "Woman without her man is nothing"
on the blackboard and directed his students to punctuate it correctly.
The men wrote: "Woman, without her man, is nothing."
The women wrote: "Woman! Without her, man is nothing."



Appreciative words are the most powerful force for good on earth.

-George W. Crane

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it
ceases to be serious when people laugh.

-George Bernard Shaw

Truth is not often welcome for its own sake; it is generally
unpleasing, because contrary to our wishes and opposite to our
practice; and, as our attention naturally follows our interest,
we hear unwillingly what we are afraid to know, and soon forget
what we have no inclination to impress upon our memories.

-Samuel Johnson

Unless you walk out into the unknown, the odds of making a profound
difference in your life are pretty low.
-Tom Peters

All good is gained by those whose thought and life are kept
pointed close to one main thing, not scattered abroad upon a
thousand.

-Stephen MacKenna

Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys.

-Andre Gide

To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of
the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight,
but the size of the fight in the dog.

-Dwight D. Eisenhower

Hope! Of all the ills that men endure, the only cheap and universal cure.

-Abraham Cowley

If you are doing your best, you will not have time to worry about
failure.

-Robert Hillyer

One of the biggest factors in success is the courage to undertake
something.

-James A. Worsham



I will not meddle with that which I cannot mend.

-Thomas Fuller

*****



There is nothing so disagreeable, that a patient mind cannot find some
solace for it.

-Lucius Annaeus Seneca

If you have a job without aggravations, you don't have a job.

-Malcolm Forbes

There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or
you alter yourself to meet them.

-Phyllis Bottome

The hardships of life are sent not by an unkind destiny to crush, but to
challenge.

-Sam E. Roberts

There is a method in man's wickedness-

It grows up by degrees.

-Francis Beaumont & John Fletcher

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves.

-Thomas Carlyle

To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to
be hopelessly in love with spring.

-George Santayana

You are as young as your faith,

As old as your doubt,

As young as your self-confidence,

As old as your fear,

As young as your hope,

As old as your despair.

-Anonymous

Four things that never return:

The spoken word,

The sped arrow,

The past life,

The neglected opportunity.

-Anonymous

It takes less time to do a thing right than to explain why you did it wrong.

-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that
the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer because smaller and
more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of
being hurt.

-Thomas Merton

*****


There are two methods, or means, and only two, whereby man's
needs and desires can be satisfied. One is the production and
exchange of wealth; this is the economic means. The other is the
uncompensated appropriation of wealth produced by others; this is
the political means.

-Albert Jay Nock

The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life,
the clearer we should see through it.

-Jean-Paul Sartre

We must love them both-those whose opinions we share and those
whose opinions we reject. For both have labored in the search for
truth, and both have helped us in the finding of it.

-St. Thomas Aquinas

We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings
and our hearts.

-William Hazlitt

There are people who laugh to show their fine teeth; and there
are those who cry to show their good hearts.

-Joseph Roux

Truisms:

Life is like a twenty-mule team; unless you are the lead mule,
the view is the same.

Easy Street is a blind alley.

It is easy to make a mountain out of a molehill-just add dirt.

The wise man is not always silent-but he knows when to be.

Some days, it takes all you've got just to keep up with the losers.

Never speak of a man in his own presence. It is always
indelicate, and may be offensive.

-Samuel Johnson

It is not hard work which is dreary; it is superficial work.
-Edith Hamilton

Governments tend not to solve problems, only rearrange them.

-Ronald Reagan

Men hesitate less to injure a man who makes himself loved than to
injure one who makes himself feared, for their love is held by a
chain of obligation which, because of men's wickedness, is broken
on every occasion for the sake of selfish profit; but their fear
is secured by a dread of punishment.

-Niccolo Machiavelli

Great and good are seldom the same man.

-Thomas Fuller

All empty souls tend to extreme opinion.

-William Butler Yeats

*****




Enthusiasm finds the opportunities, and energy makes the most of them.

-Henry Hoskins

We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and
we must respect the past, remembering that is was once all that was humanly
possible.

-George Santayana

Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.

-Jonathan Swift

The responsibility of tolerance lies in those who have the wider vision.

-George Eliot

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the
world.

-Arthur Schopenhauer

The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight but has no
vision.

-Helen Keller

To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being
in our beclouded and tempestuous existence.

-Joseph Conrad

There is no passion like that of the functionary for his function.

-Georges Clemenceau

Patriotism is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and
steady dedication of a lifetime.

-Adlai Stevenson

Politics is a field where action is one long second best and where the
choice constantly lies between two blunders.

-John Morley

Eight Ways to Tell If You're in Love:

True love distinguishes between a person and a body.

True love always generates respect.

True love is self-giving.

True love can thrive without physical expression.

True love seeks to build a relationship.

True love embraces responsibility.

True love can postpone gratification.

True love is basically commitment.

-Erwin Lutzer

There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is
cowardice.

-Br. Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain)

It is a very delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his
estimation, and yours too.

-Josh Billings

Just remember-when you think all is lost, the future remains.

-Bob Goddard

*****



To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.

-Sir Walter Scott

When you have a thing where you want it, it is a good thing to leave it
where it is.

-Br. Winston Churchill

For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only
changes them.

-Marcus Aurelius

True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway.

-Edna Buchanan

Being all fashioned of the self-same dust,

Let us be merciful as well as just.

-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation; you do not find it among gross
people.

-Samuel Johnson

Kindness is a hard thing to give away; it keeps coming back to the giver.

-Ralph Scott

A man is known by the silence he keeps.

-Oliver Herford

Words have power. Words have altered the course of history and changed
forever the destiny of individuals who spoke out.

-Terrence J. McCann

Stand close to all, but lean on none,

And if the crowd desert you,

Stand just as fearlessly alone,

As if a throng begirt you;

And learn what long the wise have known

Self-flight alone can hurt you.

-William S. Shurtleff

Life is a fragment, a moment between two eternities, influenced by all that
has preceded, and to influence all that follows.

-W. E. Channing

A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he knows
something.

-Wilson Mizner

*****

Computers are truly wondrous.  They faithfully replicate in an instant every
mistake that we put into them.


 Hard work pays off in the future. Laziness pays off now.



.
I also reflect on what John Philpot Curran once said: "The condition upon
which God has given liberty to man is eternal vigilance." Let us never take
our freedom for granted, but rather defend it and protect it unceasingly
against the forces of darkness.



