WORDS OF WISDOM - SOMETIMES

God is wonderful.
I guess being so grateful for being alive and
already having visited hell has a lot to do
with my optimism and faith.
-- from E. GRANT
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Choose character over reputation --
your character is what you really are,
your reputation is merely what others
THINK you are.

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Whenever I get ready to do something,
I ask myself,
‘Would an idiot do this?’.
If the answer is yes,
then I don’t do it.
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#1
"It appears we have appointed our worst generals to command
forces, and our most gifted and brilliant to edit newspapers.
In fact, I discovered by reading newspapers that these editor/geniuses plainly saw all my strategic defects from the start, yet failed to inform me until it was too late.
Accordingly, I am readily willing to yield my command to these
obviously superior intellects, and I will, in turn, do my best for
The Cause by writing editorials - after the fact."
Robert E. Lee, 1863
# 2
ISN'T IT AMAZING THAT ALL THE FOLKS WHO KNOW HOW TO RUN
ORGANIZATIONS ARE BUSY DRIVING CABS OR CUTTING HAIR?
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HEY CURLY, DID YOU KILL ANYONE TODAY?
NO, BUT THE DAY IS NOT OVER.
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WAS GOD MISTAKEN ? ********************************
FROM PAUL HENNING - SFC '67

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same
God who has endowed us with
sense,
reason,
and intellect
has intended us to forgo their use. -- Galileo Galilei

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"Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."
-- Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr
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PLANTING AND READING, PLANTING AND READING -- I NEVER COULD FIGURE IT OUT -- FIRST YOU FILL A MAN FULL OF LEAD - THEN YOU DIG A HOLE AND READ OVER HIM FROM THE GOOD BOOK -- LIKE THE LORD WAS IN ON IT WITH YOU.
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"GOLDFINGER, DO YOU EXPECT ME TO TALK."
"NO, MISTER BOND, I EXPECT YOU TO DIE."
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DR. MIGUELITO LOVELESS ----> "I AM GOING TO KILL YOU MISTER WEST.
I AM GOING TO KILL YOU JUST AS DEAD AS I CAN. "
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THE KING HUNTED LATE IN THE WOODS AND HAD TO TAKE DINNER WITH A FARMER AND HIS FAMILY. THE WIFE PREPARED A GRAND TABLE FOR THE KING AND HIS STAFF. HALF WAY INTO SERVING THE MEAL, THE WIFE STOPPED, TURNED TO THE KING AND SAID, "YOUR MAJESTY, I AM SO SORRY."
THE KING REPLIED, " FOR WHAT OFFENSE, MY GOOD WOMAN?"
THE WIFE TOLD THE KING THAT OUT OF FORCE OF HABIT, SHE HAD SEATED HER HUSBAND AT THE HEAD OF THE TABLE.
ALL THE KNIGHTS LAUGHED AND THE WIFE WAS STUNNED. THEN A KNIGHT SAID TO THE WOMAN,
"YOU HAVE DONE NO WRONG, MADAM, YOU JUST FAILED TO REALIZE ---- WHEREVER THE KING SITS, IS THE HEAD OF THE TABLE."
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THE YOUNG BOY HAD MANAGED TO PICK A FIGHT WITH AN OLD, RELUCTANT GUNFIGHTER. THE BOY WAS SEEKING A REPUTATION AND THE OLD MAN WAS HOPING TO AVOID ANYMORE BLOODSHED IN HIS LATER YEARS.
JUST A MINUTE BEFORE THE FIGHT, THE TWO MINISTERS IN THE TOWN CAME OVER TO THE BOY AND BEGAN TO PRAY FOR HIM. THE BOY LAUGHED AND TOLD THEM TO PRAY FOR THE OLD GUNFIGHTER.
THE MINISTERS SPOKE TO THE BOY AND HE SOON MOUNTED HIS HORSE AND RODE AWAY, WITH HIS GUN IN HIS SADDLE BAG.
THE MAYOR ASKED THE MEN OF GOD, WHAT THEY TOLD THE BOY.
THEY SAID THEY NEVER MENTIONED CALLING OFF THE CONTEST.
THEY ONLY TOLD THE YOUNG MAN THAT, NO ONE HAD COME CLOSE ENOUGH TO EVEN GETTING A SHOT OFF AGAINST THE OLD GUNFIGHTER; SO THEY FIGURED TO PRAY FOR THE LIKELY LOSER'S SOUL AND THEY ADDED THAT ANY FOOL CAN BE A YOUNG GUNFIGHTER, ONLY A MAN WITH A STEADY HAND, COULD BE AN
OLD GUNFIGHTER.
THE YOUNG BOY LOOKED AT HIS HAND QUIVERING AND RODE OFF.
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XX - ACE HANNAH TOLD ME TO NEVER TRUST ANYONE
RR- DO YOU THINK HE TAUGHT YOU RIGHT?
XX- SURE, ACE DIED KNOWING HE WAS RIGHT. HE DIED 30 SECONDS AFTER,
I SHOT HIM IN THE BACK.
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XX - HOW DID YOU GET THE PROMOTION.
RR- I WAS SMART ENOUGH TO PLAY DUMB.
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IN THE LAND OF THE BLIND, THE ONE EYED MAN IS KING.
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'TIS BETTER TO HAVE LOVED AND LOST, THAN NEVER TO HAVE LOVED AT ALL.
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NOT DRUNK IS HE, WHO FROM THE FLOOR, CAN RISE ALONE AND STILL DRINK MORE.
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THERE IS A SUCKER BORN EVERY MINUTE.
SUCKERS DIE AND STILL THEY COME.
NEVER GIVE A SUCKER AN EVEN BREAK AND
NEVER WISEN UP A CHUMP.
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GOD MAKES THE BACK TO THE BURDEN.
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SELF PRAISE IS NO RECOMMENDATION
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SELF PRESERVATION IS THE FIRST LAW OF NATURE.
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THE CYNICS PRAYER --->> OH GOD, IF THERE IS A GOD;
SAVE MY SOUL, IF I HAVE ONE.