This'n'That; April Fifth #3; 'Pearls'

Mid-West 'Pearls' Of Wisdom
    After more than a year, the 'Young Miss Lovely' and I are still in the process of cleaning, organizing and updating my late mother-in-law's apartment.  On occasion, I run across books and other stuff of interest.  The latest is a book: Midwest Wisdom by Patrick Caton.  I shall excerpt from it, from time to time. To wit:

• "Democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity, as well as the inalienable right, to govern himself with reason and justice." -Harry S. Truman
• "Some women.... believe that concepts such as power and ambition are inconsistent with the mission of guiding their steps and their conscience.  Over the years, though, women have come to realize that power is a positive force if it's used for positive purposes." -Elizabeth H. Dole
• "It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace.  When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences." -Harry S. Truman
• "Apply yourself.  Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something.  Don't just stand there; make it happen." -Lee Iococca
• "I want to do it because I want to do it.  Women must try to do things as men have tried.  When they fail, their failure must be but a challenge to others." -Amelia Earhart
• "The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor." -Hubert H. Humphrey
• "Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear--not absence of fear." -Mark Twain
• "All our dreams can come true--if we have the courage to persue them." -Walt Disney
• "Courage is grace under pressure." -Ernest Hemingway
• "Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself.  It's what you do for others." -Danny Thomas
• "Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right." -Henry Ford
• "I was once asked if a big business man ever reached his objective.  I replied that if a man ever reached his objective, he was not a big business man." -Charles M. Schwab
• "Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is." -Vince Lombardi
• "Follow your instincts.  That is where true wisdom manifests itself." -Oprah Winfrey
• "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man--and I'll show you a failure." -Thomas Alva Edison
• "The only thing new in the world is the history you don't know." -Harry S. Truman
• "Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people?  Is there any better or equal hope in the world?" -Abraham Lincoln
• "Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them." -Ann Landers
• "Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved." -William Jennings Bryant
• "What is conservatism?  Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried?" -Abraham Lincoln
• "The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender." -Vince Lombardi
• "There is a brilliant child locked inside every student." -Marva Collins
• "I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after." -Ernest Hemingway
• "I will not go to bed just because my husband is sleepy and has to get up early the next morning." -Erma Bombeck
• "To do the right thing, at the right time, in the right way; to do some things better than they were ever done before; to eliminate errors; to know both sides of the question; to be courteous; to be an example; to work for the love of work; to anticipate requirements; to develop resources; to recognize no impediments; to master circumstances; to act from reason rather than rule; to be satisfied with nothing short of perfection." -Marshall Field and Company
• "There's a difference between a philosopy and a bumper sticker." -Charles M. Schultz
• "I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me." -Abraham Lincoln
• "A problem well stated is a problem half-solved." -Charles F. Kettering
• "Luck is a dividend of sweat.  The more you sweat, the luckier you get." -Ray Kroc
• "It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up again." -Vince Lombardi
• "Power does not corrupt.  Fear corrupts, perhaps the fear of a loss of power." -John Steinbeck
• "My success just evolved from working hard at the business at hand each day." -Johnny Carson
• "To work hard, to live hard, to die hard and then go to hell, after all would be too damned hard." -Carl Sandberg
• "The kind of people I look for to fill top management spots are the eager beavers, the mavericks.  These are the guys who try to do more than they're expected to do--they always reach." -Lee Iococca
• "My interest is in the future because I'm going to spend the rest of my life there." -Charles F. Kettering
• "A free society is one in which it is safe to be unpopular." -Adlai Stevenson
• "Keeping a little ahead of conditions is one of the secrets of business." -Charles M. Schwab
• "There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its poteintialities, so absolutely terrifying that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.  What man's mind can create, man's character can control." -Thomas Alva Edison
• "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." -Neil Armstrong
• "Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.  The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things; knows not the livid loneliness of fear." -Amelia Earhart
• "Who can say what new horizons lie before us if we can but maintian the initiative and  develop the imagination to penetrate them?" -Alfred P. Sloan, Jr.
• " The number of people in possession of any criteria for discriminating between good and evil is very small." -T.S. Elliot
• "Life is a series of experiences, each of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this." -Henry Ford
• "The man who has done his best has done everything." -Charles M. Schwab
• "Watch for opportunities to let the world know where you stand." -D.L. Moody
• "Men make history and not the other way around." -Harry S. Truman
• "All successful employers are stalking men who will do the unusual, men who think, men who attract attention by performing more than is expected of them." -Charles M. Schwab
• "The universal human yearning is for something permanent, enduring, without shadow of change." -Willa Cather
• "The best thinking has been done in solitude.  The worst has been done in turmoil." -Thomas Alva Edison

 Enjoy!
Til Nex'Time....