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"Fixed fortifications are monuments to the stupidity of mankind. If mountains and oceans can be overcome then anything built by man can be overcome." - General George S. Patton.

 

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"Ten good shoulders, wisely led,

Will beat a hundred without a head."

- Euripides

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"Pain is weakness exiting the body." - Unknown

 

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"May God stand between you and harm in all the dark places you must walk." - Ancient Egyptian blessing

 

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Here's a great one I read yesterday:

 

"Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do children of humans as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run then outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing." - Helen Keller

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I found another good one a few minutes ago. I think every American should learn this:

 

"The police are the public and the public are the police; the police being only members of the public who are paid to give full-time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in the interests of community welfare and existence." - Robert Peel

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QUOTE (goose @ Feb 7 2009, 08:28 PM)
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. - Aristotle

Nice one!

 

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The Lower Parts

 

And do I know exactly why it starts

Slow, and have I those things which live towards the bottom,

In the lower parts

Of my heart?

For the hardest meeting

Is when it comes around but the manner is not right

You take me there and then this one you draw aside

Pretend you are distant

Exactly, do not worry.

But if I appreciate you with any heart

In the lower parts

You're this one there

Do not have a need to worry when it's going to get hard.

And if you cannot remain the baby

This one time you will be all right.

You bellow and burn and

Your manner by the length the night you untie,

And the resurgence itself with the light

That this one extends towards the bottom

In the lower parts.

Shiver with difficulty and make us fall

Why it's you who begins the slow call

When you have those things which live towards the bottom,

In the lower parts

Of my heart.

 

 

 

Tell me if I'm crazy, but I think the old girl is making a play for me.

 

 

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