"God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; The courage to change the things I can; And the wisdom to know the difference." (theologian Reinhold Niebuhr)
A woman was baking a ham in the oven. Her husband asked her, "Why do you always cut the end off the ham before you place it in the oven?" She replied, "Because this is the way my Mother always did it." Her husband remained curious so called his Mother-in-law and asked, "Why did you always cut the end off the ham before placing it in the oven?" and the Mother-in-law replied, "Because that is the way my Mother always did it." Well, Grandma was still alive and so the husband called her and asked, "Why did you always cut the end off your ham before placing it in the oven?" Grandma replied, "Because my oven was too small."
"The more I practice, the luckier I get." (I think Jack Nicklaus)
"Whether you think you can or cannot-- you are right" (Henry Ford)
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." (Aristotle)
"It's not what you look at that matters, but what you see." (Henry David Thoreau)
"The first law of holes: When you realize you're in one, stop digging!" (origin unknown)
"When the Nazis came for the communists,
I remained silent;
I was not a communist.
When they locked up the social democrats,
I remained silent;
I was not a social democrat.
When they came for the trade unionists,
I did not speak out;
I was not a trade unionist.
When they came for the Jews,
I remained silent;
I wasn't a Jew.
When they came for me,
there was no one left to speak out." (Pastor Martin Niemoller)
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