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edited May 2011 in Ten Forward
A man with a watch knows what time it is. A man with two watches is never quite sure.
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  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2010
    Great minds discuss ideas;
    Average minds discuss events;
    Small minds discuss people.

    - Eleanor Roosevelt
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2010
    I cannot teach you violence, as I do not myself believe in it. I can only teach you not to bow your heads before any one even at the cost of your life. - Mahatma Gandhi
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2010
    "A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar." Mark Twain
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2010
    Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. - Plato
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2010
    "An eye for an eye will leave the whole world blind."
    -Mahatmas Ghandi
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2010
    A man with a watch knows what time it is. A man with two watches is never quite sure.

    A man with a broken watch also knows, but is wrong.
    edit: well, he's right twice every day....
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2010
    It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.

    - Mahatma Gandhi
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2010
    "I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it."
    Rogers Hornsby
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2010
    He who is devoid of the power to forgive
    is devoid of the power to love.

    ~ Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968)
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2010
    A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.-General George S. Patton
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2010
    We avoid taking risks so that we can make it safely to death.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2010
    "With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably." -- Picard [quoting Judge Aaron Satie] (The Drumhead)
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2010
    Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. - Wilde
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2010
    Points to her sig that is wisdom to accept and see the truth and prepare for it.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2010
    If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
    George S. Patton
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
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    Light a man a fire and you keep him warm for the night. Light a man on fire and you keep him warm for the rest of his life.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2010
    He who knows when he can fight and when he cannot, will be victorious.
    Sun Tzu
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2010
    Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.
    George S. Patton
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2010
    I am not a believer myself but still:

    "God grant me the serenty to accept the things I cannot change,
    the courage to change the things that I can change,
    and the wisdom to know the difference."
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2010
    'God be between you and harm in all the empty places where you must walk.'
    "Old Egyptian Saying"
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2010
    99.9% of all computer problems are located between the chair and the computing screen, these problems are also known to man as an error 40
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2010
    No bastage ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastage die for his country.
    George S. Patton

    Edit: Darn you thread censor!!!
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2010
    "There are many who can pick up the blade and fight to save their own live, But only few who can pick up that same blade to fight for an other persons live."
    Me (in character of Captain Jane Vyre former CO USS Infinity)
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2010
    The hen is the wisest of all the animal creation because she never cackles until after the egg has been laid.
    Abraham Lincoln
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2010
    the chance is six times larger that you die on the way to buy your lotery ticket than that you actualy win that lotery.
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    That's all I cared about too, was getting it right.
    R. Lee Ermey
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    I did not kill him because I didn't like him, but because my boss didn't like him
    -unknown
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    Oldtimers, weekends, and airplane landings are alike. If you can walk away from them, they're successful.
    Casey Stengel
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2010
    A man with a watch knows what time it is. A man with two watches is never quite sure.

    A broken clock is right once a day.
    (twice if you use the twelve hour timescale that I know Hazard despises.)
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2010
    “Be yourself. Above all, let who you are, what you are, what you believe, shine through every sentence you write, every piece you finish.”

    - John Jakes.
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