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The best advice someone gave you.
April 1, 2019 at 5:27 pm
Simple thread.
Name someone - and the best advice they gave you.
LCDR Thomas McCarthy (XO of my first duty station)
"Boy - if you' re learning to drink coffee - learn to drink it black. Anywhere you go, they'll have coffee - but they may not have all that milk and sugar you' re putting in it. Besides - if you want a milkshake go to Mcfucking Donalds."
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RE: The best advice someone gave you.
April 1, 2019 at 5:52 pm
The person I came to call "Gunny Miyagi" taught me more things than I could ever list here.
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RE: The best advice someone gave you.
April 1, 2019 at 8:26 pm
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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.
God thinks it's fun to confuse primates. Larsen's God!
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RE: The best advice someone gave you.
April 1, 2019 at 8:44 pm
Don't leave witnesses.
Dying to live, living to die.
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RE: The best advice someone gave you.
April 2, 2019 at 7:43 am
'When you need to make a decision, it is always a mistake to assume that you know everything you need to know.' - Eamon 'Ned' Shannon (my father - he was talking specifically about business decisions, but it turns out to apply to everything)
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‘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
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RE: The best advice someone gave you.
April 2, 2019 at 8:05 am
Don't try to swim upstream.
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RE: The best advice someone gave you.
April 2, 2019 at 8:09 am
Sagan's Pale Blue Dot speech is the best advice to humanity.