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Those Who Say It Cannot Be Done Should Get Out Of The Way Of Those Doing It

Those Who Say It Cannot Be Done Should Get Out Of The Way Of Those Doing It
I just happened to be putting some stuff away in the lounge tonight when there was an interview between a famous brain surgeon and an artist/chef doing a potrait of him.
Apparently the surgeon has a reputation for being a maverick because he takes on cases other surgeons have called “inoperable”.
The surgeon, I think his name is Charlie, said another surgeon who he respected came to see him at the request of his colleagues to ask him to stop taking cases that others had called inoperable.
Charlie showed him an x-ray of a brain tumour and asked his visitor if he could operated on it. The visitor said, “Yes.”
Charlie then asked if he would not do so if another surgeon had said it was inoperable.
The visitor said, “I do that every day.”
So every day this surgeon condemns people to death out of deference to the status quo. Out of protecting the reputation of his less competent colleagues.
I relay the story to you not for the shock and horror of the putrid, unethical actions of those who protect vested interests, for they abound.
No, I share the story so you know to at least get at least a second, third, fourth or even tenth opinion if you are told you have an inoperable or incurable condition.
I am reminded of the Chinese saying, “Those who say it can’t be done should get out of the way of those doing it!”

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GREAT TRUTHS

1. In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress. – John Adams
2. If you don’t read the newspaper you are uninformed, if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed. – Mark Twain
3. Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But then I repeat myself. – Mark Twain
4. I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle. – Winston Churchill
5. A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul. – George Bernard Shaw
6. A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off with your money. – G. Gordon
Liddy
7. Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner. – James Bovard, Civil Libertarian (1994)
8. Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer of money from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries. – Douglas Case, Classmate of Bill Clinton at Georgetown University .
9. Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys. – P.J. O’Rourke, Civil Libertarian
10. Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. – Frederic
Bastiat, French economist (1801-1850)
11. Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it. – Ronald Reagan (1986)
12. I don’t make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. – Will Rogers
13. If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it’s free! – P. J. O’Rourke
14. In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other. – Voltaire (1764)
15. Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn’t mean politics won’t take an interest in you! – Pericles (430 B.C.)
16. No man’s life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session. – Mark Twain (1866)
17. Talk is cheap, except when Congress does it. — Anonymous
18. The government is like a baby’s alimentary canal, with a happy appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other. – Ronald Reagan
19. The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the blessings. The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery. – Winston Churchill
20. The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin. – Mark Twain
21. The ultimate result of shielding
men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.
— Herbert Spencer, English
Philosopher (1820-1903)
22. There is no distinctly Native
American criminal class, save
Congress. — Mark Twain
23. What this country needs are
more unemployed politicians
–Edward Langley,
Artist (1928-1995)
24. A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have. — Thomas Jefferson
25. We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. — Aesop
FIVE BEST SENTENCES
1. You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity, by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity.
2. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.
3. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.
4. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it.
5. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work, because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work, because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that is the beginning of the end of any nation!