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Old October 25, 2000, 01:05 PM   #1
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I started out with nothing... and still have most of it left.

It is going to be fun to watch and see how long the meek can keep the earth after they inherit it.

Consider what you think justice requires and decide accordingly. But never give your reasons; for your judgement will proably be right, but your reasons will certaianly be wrong.

Everything that i did in my life wortwhile, I caught hell for.

Look out for women. you never know when they're going to scream, or faint or go for a gun!

Anyone who stares long enough into the distance is bound to be mistaken for a philosopher or mystic in the end.

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Old October 25, 2000, 01:38 PM   #2
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One of my favorites,

"A hyphenated American is not an American at all. This is just as true of the man who puts 'Native' before the hyphen as of the man who puts German or Irish or English or French before the hyphen. Americanism is a matter of the spirit and of the soul. Our allegiance must be purely to the United States. We must unsparingly condemn any man who holds any other allegiance"

Theodore Roosevelt, 12 October 1915
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Old October 25, 2000, 02:17 PM   #3
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"The shot you don't see coming is the one that gets you." ~me

"The way you train is the way you react." ~don't remember who said that

"The way you spar is who you are." ~old saying around the practice hall

"A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us." ~Franz Kafka

"I cast no stones. The need to conform and the need to stand out seem to me to stem from the same place." ~Guinevere Turner

"There's the way things ought to be, and there's the way things are." ~Tom Berenger in Platoon

"When you feel strain, keep your mouth shut if you can." ~Thomas Harris

"We're all someone's daughter;
"We're all someone's son."
~John Farnham

"Evil bores me. It's one note. It doesn't sing. Of course life sucks; it always will. So why not make the most of it? How dare you not lunge for every shred of happiness?" ~the priest in Jeffery

"You gotta grab all that gusto [color=#FF0000]█[/color][color=#FF0000]█[/color][color=#FF0000]█[/color][color=#FF0000]█[/color][color=#FF0000]█[/color]." ~Eric Bogosian in Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll
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Old October 25, 2000, 02:27 PM   #4
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Old October 25, 2000, 05:23 PM   #5
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The problem with people who have no vices is that you can bet they have some pretty annoying virtues. Elizabeth Taylor

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Old October 25, 2000, 05:28 PM   #6
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No battle plan survives first contact with the enemy.

Which I use all the time in business, but I mangle it to say:

No project plan survives first contact with the customer.
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Old October 25, 2000, 06:54 PM   #7
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" It is far better to keep ones mouth shut and seem a fool, than to open it and remove all doubt."

" I`m here to kick a$$ and chew bubblegum, and I`m all out of bubblegum !!! "

" Oh, I`m sorry, you must have confused me with somebody who gives a [color=#FF0000]█[/color][color=#FF0000]█[/color][color=#FF0000]█[/color][color=#FF0000]█[/color][color=#FF0000]█[/color]."

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Old October 25, 2000, 07:04 PM   #8
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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by traitorjack:
""The way you train is the way you react." ~don't remember who said that

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A similar version is "Train like you fight, or die like you train"

Another old Air Force saying I'm fond of is "a parachute (or gun) is one of those things that when you need it, you usually need it pretty bad".

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Old October 25, 2000, 07:23 PM   #9
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You can build a throne from bayonets, but you can't sit on it. Boris Yeltsin [I think]

Glory is like a dead fish in the moonlight- It shines and stinks at the same time. Seminole Indians [I think]

The best way to keep your word, is not to give it. Napoleon
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Old October 25, 2000, 07:35 PM   #10
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some I rememeber: (I apoligize if this offends anyone)

friendly fire isn't all that friendly

the only thing more accurate than enemy fire is usually friendly fire.

as long as there are tests in school, there will be prayer there as well

10-4 additionally you're clear to (supposed to be 10-8) code 8.

never share a foxhole with anyone braver than you.

having a buddy is essentual, it gives the other side someone else to shoot at.

incoming fire has the right of way.

don't look important, this draws fire.

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Old October 25, 2000, 09:27 PM   #11
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This little exchange is one of my favorites.

"You've got to stop making those stupid noises."
"I was TALKING!"
"Right."


Other quotes....


"Congratulations, I have arrived!"

"It's not that I'm insensative to your needs, or that I don't understand your problem. It's just that I don't give a [EXPLETIVE DELETED]". -Me

"Never fear another man, no matter what his size. If trouble threatens, call on me, and I will equalize." -Gun advertisement from the late 1800s

"Everybody dies. Die standing up."

"3...2...1...Impact. BOOM! OH, YEAH!" -Gulf war aircraft's bombadier/navigator (can't remember if it was an A-6E Intruder or an F-111 'Vark...)

"You jammed your AK-47? What'd you do, s*** in the magazine?"

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Old October 25, 2000, 11:07 PM   #12
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Just check the signature.

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"If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seeknot your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you; and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen." - Samuel Adams
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Old October 26, 2000, 12:45 AM   #13
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"A man under age 30 who is not a liberal has no heart. A man over age 30 who is not a conservative has no brain." -- Winston Churchill (I think)
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Old October 26, 2000, 11:47 AM   #14
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The one my grandfather kept over his workbench...

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death I shall fear no evil -
FOR I AM THE MEANEST BASTARD IN THE VALLEY!

I still miss that old man
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Old October 26, 2000, 12:16 PM   #15
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God gave you a soul.
Your parents, a body.
Your Country, a rifle.
Keep all of them clean.

- From the Spanish Paratroopers Creed.
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Old October 26, 2000, 12:39 PM   #16
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"Everything I like is either illegal, immoral, or fattening." W. C. Fields
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Old October 26, 2000, 01:10 PM   #17
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May you live in interesting times. May you come to the attention of persons in high places. -- ancient Chinese curse.

You live and learn. Or you don't live long. -- Robert A. Heinlein's "Lazarus Long"

Nuke the Whales! -- Me; printed on a button I used to wear at the airport when Greenpeacers, Hare Krishnas, and others used to aggressively panhandle there.
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Old October 26, 2000, 01:25 PM   #18
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Is that a tear, is daddy's little girl gonna cry?-Beavis.

Elvis is dead, but at least he isn't gaining anymore weight.-Pin I used to have.

That's what they all say, they all say DOH. Chief Wiggum.

You shot who in the what now?-Jasper(Simpsons)

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Old October 26, 2000, 01:39 PM   #19
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"Every so often, a man has to spit on his hands, raise the black flag, and start slitting throats." Menkin?

"It's a great story and if it isn't true, it should be." My late Aunt Marguerite

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Old October 26, 2000, 02:11 PM   #20
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Do any of these do it for you? If not, check my signature line, courtesy of ol' Wild Bill, hisself!

I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day.
--Frank Sinatra


An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.
--Ernest Hemingway


A woman drove me to drink and I didn't even have the decency
to thank her.
--W.C. Fields


When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.
--Henny Youngman


24 hours in a day, 24 beers in a case. Coincidence?
--Stephen Wright


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Old October 26, 2000, 02:16 PM   #21
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"Put a rifle in the hands of a Subject, and he immediately becomes a Citizen." -- Jeff Cooper

"The fact is that the average man's love of liberty is nine-tenths imaginary, exactly like his love of sense, justice and truth. He is not actually happy when free; he is uncomfortable, a bit alarmed, and intolerably lonely. Liberty is not a thing for the great masses of men. It is the exclusive possession of a small and disreputable minority, like knowledge, courage and honor. It takes a special sort of man to understand and enjoy liberty - and he is usually an outlaw in democratic societies." -- H.L. Mencken, February 12, 1923, Baltimore Evening Sun

"If God had not wanted them to be sheared, he would not have made them sheep." -- Caldero (Bad guy from the Magnificent Seven)

"Don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blow." -- Bob Dylan

"This is This" -- Robert DeNiro as "Michael" in THE DEER HUNTER

"The unarmed man is not just defenseless - he is also contemptible." -- Machiavelli


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"The Constitution is the fundamental law for the federal government. If that government's own courts can arbitrarily change it's meaning, the government becomes a law unto itself --- that is a lawless government, a government of men, not of law." -- Joseph Sobran

"But how is this legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them, and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime." -- Frederic Bastiat
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Old October 26, 2000, 02:16 PM   #22
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From the Nightstalkers' homepage, two commandments of OpSec:

I. Thou shalt not park thy helicopter in the open, for it bringeth the rain of steel.

X. Thou shalt cover thy face, hands, and helmet, for thine enemies maketh war not on bushes.

More available at www.nightstalkers.com

Also from the same source:

The important things are always simple.
The simple things are always hard.
The easy way is always mined.

If the enemy is in range, SO ARE YOU.

Anything you do can get you shot, including doing nothing.


And last, my favorite:

"People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf." ~George Orwell
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Old October 26, 2000, 02:25 PM   #23
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Came from the history channel last night. Kind of goes along with the socialist census we've been seeing lately.

"Uniformity of appearance insures uniformity of thought."

- Adolf Hitler
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Old October 26, 2000, 03:08 PM   #24
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From Marcinko's "Rogue Warrior", something to the effect of...
Proper Prior Preparation Prevents Piss Poor Performance.
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Old October 26, 2000, 03:09 PM   #25
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Here's some I like:

Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy!--Benjamin Franklin (attributed)

"We are corrupted by prosperity."--Tacitus (Histories)AD 115

"The desire for safety stands agains every great and noble enterprise"--Tacitus (Annals, chpt II)AD 116

"The more Corrupt the State, the more numerous the laws."--Tacitus (Annals, Cpt III)AD 116

“As formerly we suffered from crimes, so now we suffer from laws.”—Publius Cornelius Tacitus. AD 116

I love this research paper! I'm actually learning something!
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