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Refrigerator Wisdom

As a young teen, while visiting a friend's home, I came across a number of wise sayings that his parents had taped to their refrigerator for the whole family. After internalizing a few of them I began noticing more of these little "gems" along the road. Here are a few for your journey...

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"It is not the function of our government
to keep the citizen from falling into error;
It is the function of the citizen to keep
the government from falling into error."

U.S. Supreme Court Justice
Robert H. Jackson 1950

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"The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use
rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use - of how to get
men of power to live for the public rather than off the public."

Robert F. Kennedy

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"It is only prudent never to place complete confidence
in that by which we have even once been deceived. "

Rene Descartes

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"People demand freedom of speech as a compensation
for the freedom of thought which they seldom use."

Soren Kierkegaard

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"Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival."

W. Edwards Deming

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"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought,
but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."

Albert Einstein

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"When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber."

Sir Winston Churchill

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"Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses."

Confucius

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"After silence, that which comes nearest
to expressing the inexpressible is Music."

Aldous Huxley

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"I have the consolation of having added nothing to my private fortune during
my public service, and of retiring with hands clean as they are empty."

Thomas Jefferson

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"Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds
upon the heel that has crushed it."

Mark Twain

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"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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"If we do not change direction,
we will end up where we are headed."

Lao Tsu

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"Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up."

Jesse Jackson

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"The poet judges not as a judge
but as the sun falling around a helpless thing."

Walt Whitman

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CHAOS

"Before the beginning of brilliance, there must be chaos.
Before a brilliant person begins something great,
they must look foolish to the crowd."

(unknown)

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"I have always believed, and I still believe,
that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way
we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value."

Hermann Hesse

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"If you know it and you don't use it
... then you don't know it."

(unknown)

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"Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods
a man should himself lend a hand."

Hippocrates

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"You'll never find yourself until you face the truth."

Pearl Bailey

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"We were not put on this earth to see through one another
... but to see one another through."

(unknown)

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"The only disability in life is a bad attitude."

Scott Hamilton

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"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment
that something else is more important than fear."

Ambrose Redmoon

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"Those who dare to fail miserably, can achieve greatly."

Robert F. Kennedy

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"Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has
reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome."

Booker T. Washington

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"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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"Politicians are the same all over.
They promise to build a bridge...
even when there is no river."

Nikita Krushchev

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"It does not matter how slowly you go
... so long as you do not stop."

Confucius

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"Experience is not what happens to you,
it is what you do with what happens to you."

Aldous Huxley

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"When it gets dark enough, you can see the stars."

Charles A. Beard

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"I used to feel sorry for myself because I had no shoes...
until I met the man who had no feet."