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David Starr Jordan, founding president of Stanford said: “Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it.”

As the Trump Cabinet takes shape, some picks good, some not so much in our opinion but, we do like the idea of cutting costs and waste including eliminating some Departments altogether, like Education, whose prevue belongs with the states. We’re reminded by Thomas Jefferson who said: “The government is best which governs least.”

According to English philosopher and literary critic George Henry Lewes, “No one ever made a great discovery without the exercise of the imagination.”

Capitalist and financier Ken Langone once noted that “The biggest risk you run in life is having fifteen people sitting around a table all agreeing with everything you say.”

Columnist Sydney Harris wrote: “An idealist believes the short run doesn’t count. A cynic believes that the long run doesn’t matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run.”

Post-election, we’d encourage Congress to channel their inner Henry Ford who said: “Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.”

“Character is like a tree, and reputation is like its shadow.” noted Abraham Lincoln; “The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.”

British author and government reformer Samuel Smiles believed that “To set a lofty example is the richest bequest a man can leave behind him.”

“Nothing much happens without a dream;” claimed author Robert Greenleaf. “For something really great to happen, it takes a really great dream.”

A belated “Congratulations” to California voters for overwhelmingly passing Proposition 36 to toughen penalties for shoplifting and fentanyl crimes, and for ousting Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón who refused to aggressively prosecute crimes, was a champion of “No Cash” bail, and oversaw a murder rate that shot to double the state average.

Robert Schuller once observed that “Again and again the impossible problem is solved when we see that the impossible problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.”