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Do No Harm,
Do Know Harm
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Originally posted by adobesig:
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.


I think of this one every day I'm at work.




Knowing what one is talking about is widely admired but not strictly required here.

Although sometimes distracting, there is often a certain entertainment value to this easy standard.
-JALLEN

"All I need is a WAR ON DRUGS reference and I got myself a police thread BINGO." -jljones
 
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The Main Thing Is
Not To Get Excited
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My CUT was an expression that my high-school 'college English' teacher used frequently enough for it to be remembered, infrequently enough for it to have some impact.

He was one of the abysmally few teachers I had that even in retrospect ever seemed to give a rat's ass about his students both in class and out. I have found that in every field I have ever sweated in, the advice has been solid; schoolboy sports, college and its drama, the Marines which demand a cool head, business where more often that not one is working for nitwits, recalitrant children, all of it.

Thank you Mr. King, The main thing is (indeed) not to get excited.


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I believe in the
principle of
Due Process
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"I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm." -- Calvin Coolidge




Luckily, I have enough willpower to control the driving ambition that rages within me.

When you had the votes, we did things your way. Now, we have the votes and you will be doing things our way. This lesson in political reality from Lyndon B. Johnson

"Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." - Justice Janice Rogers Brown
 
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Comic Relief
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Remember, no matter where you go, there you are. -- Buckaroo Banzai
 
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"It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest."

Adam Smith


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Company, villainous company hath been the spoil of me.
 
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"This too shall pass."

Unknown?
 
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in the end karma
always catches up
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"I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm." -- Calvin Coolidge


JALLEN glad your back.

I work with high school kids and I tell them all the time that I have never talked my way out of trouble but I have surely talked my way into it.


" The people shall have a right to bear arms, for the defense of themselves and the State" Art 1 Sec 32 Indiana State Constitution

YAT-YAS
 
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Free men do not ask
permission to bear arms
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I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.

Barry Goldwater


A gun in the hand is worth more than ten policemen on the phone.
The American Revolution was carried out by a group of gun toting religious zealots.
 
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Little ray
of sunshine
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Daniel Daly: "Come on, you sons of bitches, do you want to live forever?"




The fish is mute, expressionless. The fish doesn't think because the fish knows everything.
 
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E tan e epi tas
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I cannot attribute this to anybody specifically but.

"You don't have to like it, you just have to do it."

That and

"E tan e epi tas" (With your shield or on it)". This is my basic suck it up buttercup you can be terrified all you want but you gotta go through not back saying I tell myself all those times I am scared.

And finally.....

"How often does the train go by?"
"So often you won't even notice."
Blues Brothers

It's amazing how useful that Blues Brother one is. Smile


"Guns are tools. The only weapon ever created was man."
 
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Fly High, A.J.
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"Give your boss a day's work for a day's pay. If you can't do it in 8 hours, give him 9."---my dad

"Let's count stripes. Whoever runs out first shuts the F*** up."----a grizzled old E-7 I once worked with.
 
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I believe in the
principle of
Due Process
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"Give your boss a day's work for a day's pay. If you can't do it in 8 hours, give him 9."---my dad



My dad said to "do every job the way you would want it done if you owned the company, and pretty soon, you will."




Luckily, I have enough willpower to control the driving ambition that rages within me.

When you had the votes, we did things your way. Now, we have the votes and you will be doing things our way. This lesson in political reality from Lyndon B. Johnson

"Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." - Justice Janice Rogers Brown
 
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I will get by
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A journey of a thousand miles starts with
being pushed back from the gate.


Do not necessarily attribute someone's nasty or inappropriate actions as intended when it may be explained by ignorance or stupidity.
 
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My common sense
is tingling
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All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible.

-T.E. Lawrence



“You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.”
- Robert Heinlein
 
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“Then out spake brave Horatius,
The Captain of the Gate:
To every man upon this earth
Death cometh soon or late.
And how can man die better
Than facing fearful odds,
For the ashes of his fathers,
And the temples of his gods”

This seems to be a quote that comes to mind more often.


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I'm filled with gratitude for the blessings I've received.
 
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Ammoholic
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"Whether you think you can, or think you can't -- you're right." -Henry Ford
 
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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.


Sometimes you are the bug, sometimes you are the windshield.



Jesse

Sic Semper Tyrannis
 
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"A man's got to know his limitations."

"Don't let your mouth write checks your body can't cash."

"Everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about. Be kind. Always."

“Out of every one hundred men, ten shouldn't even be there, eighty are just targets, nine are the real fighters, and we are lucky to have them, for they make the battle. Ah, but the one, one is a warrior, and he will bring the others back.”
 
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If you're early, you're on time
If you're on time, you're late
If you're late you're fired.
-my father and he meant it. He gave his employees one late a year without a damn good excuse. Second time being late pack your desk.
 
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Bone 4 Tuna
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The more that you learn, the more you come to recognize just how little you know.


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An unarmed man can only flee from evil and evil is not overcome by fleeing from it. - Col Jeff Cooper

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Long Live the Super Thirty-Eight
 
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