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Daily Quotes 2/28

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“The value of life is not in the length of days,
but in the use we make of them;
a man may live long yet very little.”

Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592), French writer, essayist.

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Daily Quotes 2/27

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“Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning –
an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea
by measuring the distance we have run,
but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882), American educator, poet.

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Daily Quotes 2/26

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“What’s up, Doc?”

Tex Avery (1908-1980), American animator,
cartoonist, voice actor, director.

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Daily Quotes 2/25

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“The measure of success is not
whether you have a tough problem to deal with,
but whether it is the same problem you had last year.”

John Foster Dulles (1888-1959), U.S. Secretary of State
under President Dwight D. Eisenhower.

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Daily Quotes 2/24

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“Manual labor to my father was not only
good and decent for it’s own sake but,
as he was given to saying,
it straightened out one’s thoughts.”

Mary Ellen Chase (1887-1973) American educator, scholar, and author.

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Daily Quotes 2/23

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“Education is that whole system of human training
within and without the school house walls,
which molds and develops men.”
W.E.B. Du Bois (1868-1963), American civil rights activist,
sociology professor, historian, writer.

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Obituary for the U.S. Constitution

Posted in Clancy's Quotes, tagged , , , , , on February 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

As America continues to drift away from constitutional government, I thought it was time to prepare an obituary for the sad day we officially acknowledge the death of the document that Americans revere, even if we no longer understand it and our elected officials no obey it.

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Zoning In!

Posted in Business, Clancy's Quotes, leadership, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on February 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

The variety of uses for the word “zone” is impressive. A Google search of “zone” produced 416,000,000 hits. Two zone concepts are especially relevant to professionalism: “comfort zone” and a psychological phenomenon known as being “in the zone.”

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Daily Quotes 2/22

Posted in Daily Quote, tagged , on February 22, 2009 | Comments Off

“Example, whether it be good or bad, has a powerful influence.”
George Washington (1732-1799), Continental Army general,
First U.S. President. Letter to Lord Stirling (5 March 1780).

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Daily Quotes 2/21

Posted in Daily Quote, tagged , on February 21, 2009 | Comments Off

“There are people who put their dreams in a little box and say, ‘Yes, I’ve got dreams, of course I’ve got dreams.’
Then they put the box away and bring it out once in awhile
to look in it, and yep, they’re still there.”

Erma Bombeck (1927-1996), American humorist, author.

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