“Our actions may be impeded...
But there can be no impeding our intentions or our dispositions. Because we can accommodate and adapt. The mind adapts and converts to its own purposes the obstacle to our acting.

The impeding to action advances action.

What stands in the way becomes the way.”

― Marcus Aurelius

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“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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Be on your guard; stand firm in the faith; be men of courage; be strong. Do everything in love.
- 1 Corinthians 16:13-14

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Company, villainous company hath been the spoil of me.

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"An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile - hoping it will eat him last” - Winston Churchil

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"Trust, but verify."

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Serious about crackers.

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Any dog can be a Guide Dog if you don't care where you're going.


NRA ENDOWMENT LIFE MEMBER

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Mike

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You can run, but you cannot hide.

If you won't stand behind our troops, feel free to stand in front of them.

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despite them

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You’re a lying dog-faced pony soldier