What is your favorite quote/saying?

#103
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I used to have to say this all the time. It took 15 more years for it to really sink in. I think about certain phrases almost daily. I find that I only gravitate toward those that try to actually live it. While I am a work in progress, I have a long way to go to meet this standard every moment of my life and I always will.

Good luck



<span style="font-style: italic">The True Gentleman is the man whose conduct proceeds
from good will and an acute sense of propriety
and whose self-control is equal to all emergencies;
who does not make the poor man conscious of his poverty,
the obscure man of his obscurity,
or any man of his inferiority or deformity;
who is himself humbled if necessity compels him to humble another;
who does not flatter wealth,
cringe before power,
or boast of his own possessions or achievements;
who speaks with frankness but always with sincerity and sympathy;
whose deed follows his word;
who thinks of the rights and feelings of others rather than his own;
and who appears well in any company;
a man with whom honor is sacred and virtue safe.

John Walter Wayland 1899</span>
 
#107
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I used to say this all the time at Open Mike night at the VFW:

<span style="font-style: italic">Aiyo, these are some serious times that we're livin in G
And a new world order is about to begin, y'knowhutI'msayin?
Now the question is - are you ready, for the real revolution
which is the evolution of the mind?
If you seek then you shall find that we all come from the divine
You dig what I'm sayin?
Now if you take heed to the words of wisdom
that are written on the walls of life
then universally, we will stand and divided we will fall
because love conquers all, you understand what I'm sayin?
This is a call to all you sleepin souls
Wake up and take control of your own cipher
And be on the lookout for the spirit snipers
tryin to steal your light, y'knowhutI'msayin?
Look within-side yourself, for peace
Give thanks, live life and release
You dig me? You got me?</span>
-Flava Flave
 
#108
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Forty-One</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Look, we can sit here and debate manufacturers and types of glass for hours or we can enjoy this beer. Here's the thing: I can kill a motherfucker with anything.
-GySgt N. U.S. Marine Scout Sniper </div></div>


lmao.. nice!
 
#109
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Lindy</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Yeah, <span style="font-style: italic">try</span> is the correct verb.
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It's important to be aware of your own limitations and constantly try to improve upon them
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#111
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"Seek ye first the kingdom of LOVE and its righteousness and all else will be added to you."

If anyone wants to debate with me my choice to substitute the work Love for the word god, please confine it to PM's as I dont want to join CKA in saying "Ive been banned from Snipers Hide again".
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#112
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“Private and public life are subject to the same rules-- truth and manliness are two qualities that will carry you through this world much better then policy or tact or expediency or other words that were devised to conceal a deviation from a straight line.” -Robert E. Lee.
 
#113
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: COURAGEWOLF</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Lindy</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Yeah, <span style="font-style: italic">try</span> is the correct verb.
</div></div>

It's important to be aware of your own limitations and constantly try to improve upon them
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-dick marcinko
 
#114
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Forty-One</div><div class="ubbcode-body">And fool can make a rule, and every fool will mind it.
-Henry David Thoreau </div></div>

Thats gold

My favorite is "That which does not kill us makes us stronger" even though its a bit overused
 
#117
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Forty-One</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Goldie. There are some things you don't flip on. Quotes, for instance. Like that one.

SELF-BAN. </div></div>


Im good with it. If the mods say it goes it goes. I see yOur intn Ayn Rand. I just finished her short novel, Anthem. Interesting read though I would have to disagree about her choice of the 'sacred' word, EGO. I would choose 'FREEDOM'.

How about this one.....

"We pledge or lives, our fortunes,our sacred honor." the signers of the Declaration of Independece
 
#118
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Forty-One</div><div class="ubbcode-body">The teacher or lecturer is a danger. He very seldom recognizes his nature or his position. The lecturer is a man who must talk for an hour. France may have possibly acquired the intellectual leadership or Europe when their academic period was cut down to 40 minutes. I also have lectured. The lecturer's first problem is to have enough words to fill 40 or 60 minutes. The professor is paid for his time, his results are almost impossible to estimate....No teacher has ever failed from ignorance. That is empiric professional knowledge. Teachers fail because they cannot "handle the class." Real education must ultimately be limited to men who INSIST on knowing, the rest is mere sheep herding.
-Ezra Pound</div></div>





...verily so....
 
#121
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I would choose EGO. It conflicts with my understanding of Matthew 6:33 however, and His Kingdom. This paradox is one of lifes great struggles. She simply didn't get it.

If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
-Isaac Newton

(he was not referring to large, fat people).
 
#122
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Variations on Newton:

"In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose shoulders we stand." -- Gerald Holton

"If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders." -- Hal Abelson

"In computer science, we stand on each other's feet." -- Brian K. Reid
 
#127
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Lindy</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Yeah, me, too. If you want to know why, see this LINK.
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That looks like a whole mess of frustration
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I work with quite a few CCIE's. As a young IT wannabe I always envisioned myself going into the field, wrangled my CCNA loved it.

Then I sat next to our resident Network Engineer for a year.

No longer interested
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That guys conference calls were more than enough to steer me away!
 
#129
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"Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely."

If anyone knows the author of that one sing out.
 
#131
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There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless.
Niccolo Machiavelli

The world is quickly filling up with the third kind.
 
#134
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People who are able to do something well can do that thing for a living, while people who are not able to do anything that well make a living by teaching. - Shaw

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#135
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Cum catapultae proscriptae erunt tum soli proscripti catapultas habebunt.
(When catapults are outlawed, only outlaws will have catapults.)

OneEyedJack
 
#138
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I was just reminded elsewhere of another favorite of mine:

"How a politician stands on the Second Amendment tells you how he or she views you as an individual; as a trustworthy and productive citizen, or as part of an unruly crowd that needs to be lorded over, controlled, supervised, and taken care of." -- Dr. Suzanna Gratia Hupp

Both of her parents were killed in the Luby's cafeteria mass murder in Killeen, Texas, and she was subsequently almost single-handedly responsible for the law which established the Texas Concealed Handgun License.
 
#140
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Gratitude is riches,
complaint is poverty,
and the worst I ever had was wonderful.
Dave Gardner

Ten percent of the people think, ten percent of the people think they think, and eighty percent of the people had rather die than think.
My Grandfather

Believe the worst and expect the least and you will never be disappointed.
Unknown
 
#142
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: BOLTRIPPER</div><div class="ubbcode-body">"you never want to be the first one at the scene of an accident"

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My exact thoughts as Bolt was driving me to Tyler last week.
 
#146
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: queequeg</div><div class="ubbcode-body">From my old boss, Shorty McCarthy, circa 1982;

There's two kinds of liars in the world; the guys who say they don't jerk off and the guys who say they quit. </div></div>

I like that, kinda like "There are two types of Divers, those who pee in their wetsuits, and those that lie."
 
#147
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not my favorite, but thought it was worth posting:

“I have never met a truly strong person who didn’t have self-respect. When I see guys
working out for cosmetic reasons, I see vanity exposing them in the worst way, as
cartoon characters, billboards for imbalance and insecurity. Strength reveals itself
through character.
Muscle mass does not always equal strength. Strength is kindness and sensitivity.
Strength is understanding that your power is both physical and emotional. That it
comes from the body and the mind. And the heart.
The Iron is the best antidepressant I have ever found. There is no better way to fight
weakness than with strength. Once the mind and body have been awakened to their
true potential, it’s impossible to turn back.
The Iron never lies to you. You can walk outside and listen to all kinds of talk, get told
that you’re a god or a total bastard. The Iron will always kick you the real deal. The
Iron is the great reference point, the all-knowing perspective giver. Always there like a
beacon in the pitch black.
I have found the Iron to be my greatest friend. It never freaks out on me, never runs.
Friends may come and go. But two hundred pounds is always two hundred pounds.”
- Henry Rollins
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