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Every couple of weeks, my office brings in Chinese food for lunch for anyone who fills out the order form and pays the gal who manages the money. They usually have a pile of fortune cookies left over, so I grabbed a couple this afternoon. I think they may have hired a new philosopher. I never saw anything like this before:

Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.

The other slip of paper had a modified version of my high school yearbook quote which was not found on a fortune cookie but on a sugar packet at our local diner:

It is vastly better to try to do something and fail than to try to do nothing and succeed.

Pretty good observations about leadership and accomplishment, I think.