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These are things I think about
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Out of Uncle Mike's Mouth
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It's the lessons that don't come in books, that are the most important to a child's education
A fool talks, a wise man speaks; A fool hears, while a wise man listens
A better question than if you can, is if you should.
Being a cowgirl isn't about roping and riding, it's about riding with your spurs on no matter what you do
It's easy to get where you're going if you don't care where you end up
Intelligence is knowing how, Knowledge is knowing why, Wisdom is knowing why not.
When all is said and done, people will do what's important to them. If it wasn't done, then it wasn't important enough. Only you can decide what's important enough to you by making sure it gets done.
I do not talk 'at' a child, I do not talk 'to' a child, I talk 'with' the child. That's why I'm Uncle Mike, and most people aren't.
It's your stuff, you're the one who sets it's value. If you give it away, you have then determined it's worth. Worthless, or priceless, it's your decision to make
Time wasted together, is never really wasted
Every cowgirl knows you can stand a bunch of guys in a corral; but that don't make them Cowboys
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Things to Think About;
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Children, and Childhood
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In
childhood, we press our nose to the pane, looking out. In memories of
childhood, we press our nose to the pane, looking in. ~Robert Brault
We worry about what a child will become tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today. ~Stacia Tauscher
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While we try to teach our children all about life, Our children teach us what life is all about. - Angela Schwindt
There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child. There are seven million. - Walt Streightiff
It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men. - Frederick Douglass
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Things to Think About;
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Love
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Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men
with the hope they will change. Invaribly they are both disappointed. -Albert Einstein
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
- Lao Tzu
I don't wish to be everything to everyone, but I would like to be something to someone.
- Javan
It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.
- Miguel de Unamuno
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
- H. L. Menken
Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
And in the end, the love you take, is equal to the love you make. - Paul McCartney
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards. - Ben Franklin
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Our Favorite Pundits
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Mark Twain
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Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that
you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines.
Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails.
Explore. Dream. Discover.
When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes time and annoys the pig.
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Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people
always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can
become great.
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Action speaks louder than words, but not nearly as often.
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
The Dictionary is the only place that "success" comes before "work".
Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
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Things to Think About;
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Education
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Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one
has learned in school. - Albert
Einstein
A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one. - Ben Franklin
Never let your schoolin' interfere with your education. - Mark Twain
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. Andy McIntyre
A child educated only at school is an uneducated child. ~George Santayana
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The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read. With loads of learned lumber in his head. - Alexander Pope
The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives. -Robert Maynard Hutchins
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Things to Think About;
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Knowledge
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The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge, but imagination.
- Albert Einstein
Knowing is not enough, you must apply; willing is not enough, you must do. - Bruce Lee
One part of knowledge consists in being ignorant of such things as are not worthy to be known. - Crates
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. - Isaac Asimov
There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old
things we don't know. - Ambrose
Bierce
An investment in knowledge pays the best interest. - Ben Franklin
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Things to Think About;
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Wisdom
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In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool.
- Lord Chesterfield
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. - Mahatma Gandhi
Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens." - Jimi Hendrix
Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it. - Albert Einstein
No man was ever wise by chance. - Seneca
Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.
- Horace
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True
wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand
about life, ourselves, & the world around us. -Socrates
We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future. - George Bernard Shaw
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Our Favorite Pundits;
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Ben Franklin
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To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.
Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.
Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.
Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.
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There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants
or augment our means - either may do - the result is the same and it is
for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be
easier.
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Things to Think About;
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Change
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You must be the change you wish to see in the world. -Mohandas Gandhi
Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.
- Confucius
Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
- Bertold Brecht
Just because everything is different doesn't mean anything has changed.
- Irene Peters
It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it
would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an
egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely
being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.
- C. S. Lewis
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Things to Think About;
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Excellence
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
-Aristotle
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
M. L. King Jr.
Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.
- Booker T. Washington
Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do.
- Jose Ortega y Gassett
If you are going to achieve excellence in big things,
you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an
exception, it is a prevailing attitude.
- Colin Powell
It is only through raising expectations and striving for excellence that our children can reach their full potential.
- Brad Henry
The noblest search is the search for excellence.
- Lyndon B. Johnson
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My Favorite Pundits
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Sun Tzu
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All war is based on deception
Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
Build your opponent a golden bridge to retreat across.
There is no instance of a nation benefitting from prolonged warfare.
A skilled commander seeks victory from the situation and does not demand it of his subordinates.
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Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.
Be extremely subtle, even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious, even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby, you can be the director of your oppnent's fate.
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For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme
of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill.
The best victory is when the opponent surrenders of its own accord
before there are any actual hostilities... It is best to win without
fighting.
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More Things to Think About
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