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Originally posted by ICIP:
teach a man to fish and u feed him for life
teach a man to invest on wall street, he will buy a boat and hire another man to do his fishing - Bert Desai

Then when the market rises, he jumps up...
and when the market falls, he jumps through the window.

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Originally posted by Terry Ishmael:

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Originally posted by ICIP:
teach a man to fish and u feed him for life
teach a man to invest on wall street, he will buy a boat and hire another man to do his fishing - Bert Desai

Then when the market rises, he jumps up...
and when the market falls, he jumps through the window.

Keep in mind that he's in the fishing industry, so he might have some sturdy nets to catch him!

"Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, but to weigh and consider . . . Histories make men wise."

Francis Bacon, Sr

Everything requires time. It is the only truly universal condition. All work takes place in time and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable, and necessary resource. Nothing else, perhaps, distinguishes effective executives as much as their tender loving care of time."
Peter F. Drucker

We may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.
~~ George Hegel

When you're in your nineties and looking back, it's not going to be how much money you made or how many awards you've won. It's really what did you stand for. Did you make a positive difference for people?
~ Elizabeth Dole

Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart
~ Kahlil Gibran~

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.
~Hellen Keller ~

A trip to the top begins with the first mountain--Alex

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Originally posted by Alexander:
Your children are your children. Treat them with love and care.(Alex)

Alex, more on children from Kahlil Gibran

Growth

Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you.
And though they are with you, yet they belong not to you.
You may give them your love but not your thoughts.
For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow,
Which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you,
For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.
You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.
The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite,
and He bends you with His might that His arrows might go swift and far.
Let your bending in the archer's hand be for gladness;
For even as He loves the arrow that flies,
so He loves also the bow that is stable.

Coco, thanks. Gibran was way ahead of his time.

What you are will show in what you do.
~ Thomas A. Edison~

Edison was smart fella coco. I use to had dis on meh office wall in guyana.

"Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration"
Thomas A. Edison

...then a lot of stink sweaty people start coming in the office, and I tek it down.

"First-class players lose to second-class players because
second-class players sometimes play a first-class game"
~Siegbert Tarrasch

"Chess is as much a mystery as women"
~Purdy~

A long mouthstache make many friends-Alex( although it might sound like Con***ius!)

Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third.
~ Margie Piercy

Special request: Ladies and gentlemen, are you able to share some thoughts on this thread? Your own or borrowed...

'There is nothing quite like a woman!"-Alex, after he had spent a year living in the Amazon.

One man cannot do right in one department of life whilst he is occupied in doing wrong in any other department. Life is one indivisible whole. Mahatma Gandhi.

Two birds in the bush is better than one in a cage--Alex.

Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

~ Will Rogers

Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.

John Donne

I hope one day to grow up before I grow old.

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Originally posted by ball:
I hope one day to grow up before I grow old.

Peter Pan?

The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.
~Harriet Beecher Stowe

When you're in a valley of despair, let your faith shine like a torch--Alex.

When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bounds. Your mind trancends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction, and you find yourself in a new, great and wonderful world. - The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali.

Few of us can do great things, but all of us can do small things with great love. - Mother Teresa.

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Originally posted by antabanta:
Few of us can do great things, but all of us can do small things with great love. - Mother Teresa.

Anta, Mother Teresa is such an inspiration- a truly blessed soul.

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Originally posted by coco:

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Originally posted by antabanta:
Few of us can do great things, but all of us can do small things with great love. - Mother Teresa.

Anta, Mother Teresa is such an inspiration- a truly blessed soul.

absolutely!!

Be careful what you say, even the eyes have ears!--Alex

Take your time and walk ye well, but let thy feet always go forward. (Alex, when he and Plato studied together.)

There is nothing so powerful as and idea whose time has come. Victor Hugo

Will that be cash or charge.?
Would you like some batteries to go with that vibrator Maam?

"And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair."
~Kahlil Gibran~

I guess we have to run barefeet in the wind.

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Originally posted by Terry Ishmael:
I guess we have to run barefeet in the wind.

Would the wind be able to play with your hair? You might be sporting the "bald look"

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
~Aristotle~

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Originally posted by coco:

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Originally posted by Terry Ishmael:
I guess we have to run barefeet in the wind.

Would the wind be able to play with your hair? You might be sporting the "bald look"

The wind only like women, I think!

To be an artist includes much; one must possess many gifts - absolute gifts - which have not been acquired by one's own effort. And, moreover, to succeed, the artist much possess the courageous soul.
~Kate Chopin~

Thomas Haynes Bayly (1797-1839)
"Absence makes the heart grow fonder"