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How do you measure the stupidest thing you've done?

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February 05, 2018, 10:56 AM
JALLEN
How do you measure the stupidest thing you've done?
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Originally posted by vthoky:


Thank you, Mr. Allen, for the Churchill quote. That may just get printed and pinned to my corkboard.


There is a story behind it, too long to cut and paste here. Summary... he suffered a dislocated shoulder as a young man that plagued him the rest of his life. Because of it, at the cavalry battle of Omdurman in 1898, he was forced to use a Mauser pistol rather than the more traditional sword. He says had he been able to use a sword, his story might not have got so far as the telling.

Here’s another Churchill quote which may provide relief:

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”

Here’s another:

“If you're going through hell, keep going.”



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
February 05, 2018, 12:22 PM
muzzleloader
I measure them in sutures. 15 across the pad of my thumb from a table saw I removed the blade guard from. Just glad I still have it.


"The days are stacked against what we think we are." Jim Harrison
February 05, 2018, 05:12 PM
vthoky
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Originally posted by joatmonv:
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Originally posted by vthoky:
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Originally posted by jimmy123x:
You CAN'T change the past, only the future. The past is history.


1.21 gigawatts and a DeLorean. Bring 'em. NOW.


Irrelevant. You'd go back and fix those mistakes but make more along the way.
You are exactly where you need to be.


I believe if I could go back and fix Event1, I'd be far happier dealing with any mistakes I made afterward.



God bless America.