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.

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.

When the game is over, the king and the pawn both go into the same box.

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).

"A man's rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box."
- Frederick Douglass

Adobesig - Thank you for that.

'Love many, trust few;
always paddle
your own canoe'

......my mom, 1957

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Originally posted by exx1976:
When the game is over, the king and the pawn both go into the same box.

Nice1

Never, never never give up.

Winston Churchill

Fortune Cookie once gave me this gem:

Your problems lie not in lack of ability but in lack of ambition.

And my Star Wars Hero, Yoda gave me that tag line at the bottom.

Shit happens...

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Originally posted by armedprof:
Fortune Cookie once gave me this gem:

Your problems lie not in lack of ability but in lack of ambition.

And my Star Wars Hero, Yoda gave me that tag line at the bottom.

Best one I ever got from a fortune cookie was "Confucious say: Crowded elevator smell different to midget"

"Sometimes you get the bear. And sometimes the bear gets you."

"Forgiveness is the scent that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it." S. L. Clemens

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Originally posted by ridgerat:
"Sometimes you get the bear. And sometimes the bear gets you."

Reminds me of


Some days you're the dog, some days you're the hydrant.

Mine is a bit of a twist on an old one -

A company is known by the people it keeps.

In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.
Yogi Berra

An old captain I worked for had a few gems:

"all other things remaining equal, fat people will use more soap"

"When stupidity ceases to be fatal, evolution stops"

"before you decide you want to play hardball, figure out who is holding the bat."

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Originally posted by car541:

"When stupidity ceases to be fatal, evolution stops"

That about sums up the state of the world today..