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Quotes
"I do not need to understand the rules of life. I do need to know what they are and how they affect me. They do not necessarily have to make sense."
Karl Kolmetz (1955 to Present)
"To be able to enjoy the privileges of freedom, one must tolerate some abuse of the privilege. A small amount of immature people will abuse whatever privilege they acquire. Therefore, we have two choices, tolerate the abuses or limit the freedoms."
Karl Kolmetz (1955 to Present)
"Some of my instructors have taught me what to do and some what not to do. Each lesson is very important. You need to learn some of both and the difference."
Karl Kolmetz (1955 to Present)
"For democracy to be successful the majority of the voters need adequate education to assess issues that are good for the community as a whole, and the wisdom to vote for the greater good, even when the issue is possibly not in their own best interest."
Karl Kolmetz (1955 to Present)
Truth can be denied, but it cannot be avoided. Truth is the mapping of reality that corresponds to the way things actually are.
No one can navigate well through life without an accurate map by which to steer. Knowledge is the possession of such a map.
Most people value truth and knowledge as priceless, as they use it so sparingly.
Anonymous
" I don't know why he doesn't like me, I have never tried to help him"
Abraham Lincoln
"To succeed in life you need two things; ignorance and confidence"
Mark Twain
"Men make their own history, but they do not make it just as they please. They do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves, but under circumstances directly encountered, given, and transmitted from the past."
Karl Marx
"It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this. "
Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
"Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city. "
George Burns
"Life's tough ....... it's even tougher if you're stupid"
John Wayne
"The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them."
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
"It may sound simple, but getting any organization or group of people to see the world the way it is, and not the way they wish it were, or hoped it will be, is not as easy as it sounds."
Jack Welch
"God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest."
J D Holland
"Do not confuse success and fame. Madonna has one, Mother Teresa the other."
Erma Bombeck
"No accurate thinker will judge another person by that which the other person's enemies say about him."
Napoleon Hill
"I think it would be a good idea."
Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948), when asked what he thought of Western civilization
"You can always tell when a man's well informed. His views are pretty much like your own."
H. Jackson Brown Jr.
"Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy."
Isaac Newton (1642 - 1727)
“Around here, however, we don’t look backwards for very long. We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things… and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.”
Walt Disney
"The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity."
Mark Twain
"If you do not reach down and help pick up the less fortunate, the day will come when due to sheer weight of numbers, those less fortunate will reach up and pull you down."
Zig Ziglar
"Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness."
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Be tender with the young,
Patient with the sick,
Respectful of the elderly,
Tolerant of those in error,
At some point in your life,
you will have been each of these.
Charles Schultz Philosophy
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