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The best advice someone gave you.
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If you go to Las Vegas in a $50,000 Cadillac, you might leave in a $250,000 bus.
We do not inherit the world from our parents. We borrow it from our children.
"Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity."
I forget where I got that from, truthfully. But it is a very helpful piece of advice for my own mental well-being. 
“If you’re gonna be dumb, ya gotta be tough.”
I don’t remember the origin of the phrase, but my dad would rattle this off whenever we kids did something stupid.
Formerly Loom from TTA (rip)
~Ignorance is not to be ignored.~  (April 2, 2019 at 2:58 pm)Yonadav Wrote: If you go to Las Vegas in a $50,000 Cadillac, you might leave in a $250,000 bus. That's like the old Aussie joke, "How do you give a Kiwi a small business?" "Give him a big business and wait six months."
Dying to live, living to die.
 (April 2, 2019 at 7:15 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote:(April 2, 2019 at 2:58 pm)Yonadav Wrote: If you go to Las Vegas in a $50,000 Cadillac, you might leave in a $250,000 bus. Yeah, sounds like a joke an old Aussie would tell. Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
 (April 1, 2019 at 8:26 pm)chimp3 Wrote: Elderly retired Naval officer in a nursing home told me : "You know, if you really want people to think you're busy you should carry a clipboard". I thought I was very busy as I was the Director of Nursing but the old salt may have seen right through me. I now routinely carry a clipboard. When I was working for a large US insurance company I noticed a guy walking around with a clipboard. Every time he saw somebody looking at him he became "industrious". I called security and they accosted him. He opened fire with a 9mm. He had been looking for his soon to be ex-wife. Apparently he had stolen one of her building passes. She didn't have to worry about him after that. 
I've gotten to live a pretty cool and interesting life by ignoring everyone's advice. Pretty much doing the opposite of what i was told. What wisdom i've received came from books not people i've encountered.
 (April 2, 2019 at 7:41 pm)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote:(April 1, 2019 at 8:26 pm)chimp3 Wrote: Elderly retired Naval officer in a nursing home told me : "You know, if you really want people to think you're busy you should carry a clipboard". I thought I was very busy as I was the Director of Nursing but the old salt may have seen right through me. I now routinely carry a clipboard. THAT must have made the news. Gotta link?  (April 2, 2019 at 1:22 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:(April 2, 2019 at 12:10 pm)Sal Wrote: Everyone has given me bad advice. The ride never ends.
"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself — and you are the easiest person to fool." - Richard P. Feynman
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