12-02-2021, 20:29
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Consigliere
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Truisms/Words of Wisdom
I'll start with what I told myself today: "expired chew is better than no chew."
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12-03-2021, 08:03
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Intelligence is knowing what an electrical socket is. Wisdom is not sticking your dick in it.
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12-03-2021, 08:43
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Intelligence is also knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
Wisdom is understanding why tomato is not an ingredient in fruit salad.
Also...
The "proof is in the pudding" is not the correct way of using the trope...
"The proof of the pudding is in the tasting" suggests that the only way to demonstrate the value, success, or effectiveness of a product or process is by putting it to the test regardless of any outward appearance or promise.
Someone that tells you "we have to sign this legislation to know whats in it"
...does NOT want you to taste the pudding.
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Last edited by Box; 12-03-2021 at 08:46.
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12-03-2021, 10:34
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Don't chase the Indians if they just stole the gatling gun.
If you look around the table and can't figure out who the rube is.....it's you.
Tracers work both ways.
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12-03-2021, 21:54
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Friendly fire isn’t.
The only time you have too much fuel in an airplane is when it’s on fire.
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12-03-2021, 22:37
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The only time you can have too much ammunition is when you are on fire, or trying to swim.
TR
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12-04-2021, 01:45
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If...is the middle word in life.
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Exceptions are so inevitable that no rule is without them - except the one just stated. - Paso Por Aqui, by Eugene Manlove Rhodes
"I ask you sir, who are the militia? They consist now of the whole people........" George Mason
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12-04-2021, 04:48
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"Whenever you make something idiot-proof Nature builds a better idiot" - Me
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12-04-2021, 06:25
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"argue for your limitations, and sure enough...they're yours." Richard Bach
Never fry bacon naked
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12-04-2021, 11:10
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"God provided the stones, but David had to pick them up."
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"Hector Lives!"
"The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress." -- Frederick Douglass
"The bigger the government, the smaller the citizen." -- Dennis Prager
"The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it." --H.L. Mencken
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12-04-2021, 14:44
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Intelligence finds the right answer.
Wisdom asks the right question.
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Waiting for the perfect moment is a fruitless endeavor.
Make a decision, and then make it the right one through your actions.
"Whoever watches the wind will not plant; whoever looks at the clouds will not reap." -Ecclesiastes 11:4 (NIV)
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12-04-2021, 15:53
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Consigliere
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Quote:
Originally Posted by The Reaper
The only time you can have too much ammunition is when you are on fire, or trying to swim.
TR
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LOL, I was going to post this and attribute it to you, although the fire part is new . . . 
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12-04-2021, 16:27
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Area Commander
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Two is one and one is none. ~thanks to TR for these words of wisdom
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My Heroes wear camouflage.
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12-05-2021, 10:53
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"Nicknames and humility and rarely self applied." MWS
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"Unrewarded genius is common. Persistence alone is omnipotent". Calvin Coolidge
"The wicked flee even when none pursueth". Proverbs 28:1
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12-05-2021, 18:13
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“Better to be pissed-off than pissed on”
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"...I like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the atmosphere.” — Thomas Jefferson
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