JALLEN's thread got me reminiscing. Like many of you, I am sure, I hold a quote dear to my heart. My quote is from a piece of paper my father carried in his wallet. I received the wallet when my father passed away when I was 10. The quote is from E.H. Land of Polaroid fame. My father started working for Polaroid in 1969 or so after the Army. He began by pushing brooms. He finished an engineer that they had put through school. He retired in 1983 for medical reasons and passed in 1984.
I still have the slip of paper and his wallet. I carry the quote every day.
I am glad your father was able to be blessed by such a man as Mr. Land, the company's generosity and that he recognized it and passed that trait on to you.
You posting this and what I know of you in your posts, of those people you have called to mind to us, would make Mr. Land and your father very proud.
But I believe they already had that vision.
"the meaning of life, is to give life meaning" ✡ Ani Yehudi אני יהודי Le'olam lo shuv לעולם לא שוב!
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Theodore Roosevelt-It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.
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It may some times appear that good guys finish last. That is because they are running in a different race - my Grandfather (may not be original to him; doesn't matter).
It is very hard to reason someone out of a position they didn't reason themselves into - my mentor (same).
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"Forgiveness is the scent that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it." S. L. Clemens
"And gentlemen in England now abed, shall think themselves accursed they were not here, and hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks that fought with us upon Saint Crispin's Day"
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