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We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom. 
 
                                                                                                  
Stephen Vincent Benet

                   Bad Joke Monday
Bartender:
"Why are you wearing a paper towel for a hat?"
Pirate: "Arrrr, they've put a bounty on me head!"


Too bad the people who really know how to run Montana are all busy driving cabs, 
tending bar, lobbying, and editing newsletters. Treebranch

   
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Over Heard In The Capitol Cafeteria
Legislator:
The Legislature ended with no budget, who do we blame, the Governor,
                    the Republicans or the Democrats?
Lobbyist: Blame the people. They're the ones who voted for term limits.

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             Instructions For Life
I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us,
that the less we use our power the greater it will be. Thomas Jefferson

The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil. Cicero

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Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.  Wharton

                              
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Thoughts While Watching the Legislature adjourn Sine Die
Sine Die - Latin for:
The final adjournment of a legislative session, without adjourning to a specific time or date;

Circumlocution - Latin for:  
The use of many words to express an idea that might have been expressed by a few.

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. Gandhi.

It is characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things. Thoreau

Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences. Cousins

Goodness without wisdom invariably accomplishes evil. Heinlein

To know when to be generous and when firm—that is wisdom. Hubbard

It's so simple to be wise. 
Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite. Stevenson

Kindness is more important than wisdom, 
and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom. Theodore Rubin

The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind. Wilcox

One's first step in wisdom is to question everything
and one's last is to come to terms with everything.   Lichtenberg

No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious. Shaw

I do not want the peace that passeth understanding. 
I want the understanding which bringeth peace.  Helen Keller

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                   Good Service Tip Of The Week 
Nine-tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.  Theodore Roosevelt

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The perfection of wisdom, and the end of true philosophy is to proportion our wants
to our possessions, our ambitions to our capacities, we will then be a happy and a
virtuous people.  MarkTwain

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification. Fischer

It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.  Ingersoll

We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.  Samuel Smiles

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Proverbs 17:28
Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: 
and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding.  
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A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. 
It's jolted by every pebble on the road. 
Henry Ward Beecher

   
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Lobbyist:
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Legislator: Quick! Send someone to fetch a child of five.

I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it. Clark

Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. Shaw

        
                      
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The Writer's Block
Humor is, I think, the subtlest and chanciest of literary forms. It is surely not accidental that there are a thousand novelists, essayists, poets or journalists for each humorist. 
It is a long, long time between James Thurbers.
   Leo Rosten

Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book. If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for. Walker

I may not agree with what you say, 
but I shall defend to the death your right to say it. Voltaire.


                    
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Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth? Galatians 4:16

   
The Final Word From Treebranch
Be careful of your thoughts, they may become words at any moment.

Many attempts to communicate are nullified by saying too much.  Robert Greenleaf

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