Creative minds are uneven, and the best of fabrics have their dull spots.
H.P. Lovecraft
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Dad told me when I was young to "learn to drink your coffee black and cold and you'll never be disappointed."
I don't think he was just talking about coffee.
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No matter how many books , videos you see , you cannot learn how to swim without entering the pool.
Life's tough for everyone
-Grandpa
A evergreen quote:
Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
"Don't follow people - follow ideas" which seems more relevant today than ever before it seems.
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Perhaps today is a good day to die. Prepare for ramming speed!
"Nobody will take care of you if you don't take care of yourself"
Apply this to pushing back on contracts, double checking what you're asked to do, and putting yourself first, and you'll get a lot more respect in my experience. If you primarily put others first, your self will feel neglected. It doesn't mean you should not care for others, but that your highest priority should be yourself, and then others.
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No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun.
“It only ever ends once, everything before that is just progress” -Jacob from lost lol
Hitchens on the death of Jerry Falwell: "If they gave his corpse an enema, they could bury him in a matchbox."
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"Someone once said that love is the best medicine. He was wrong, though; its crack." Source Unknown
"Like they should have stopped Hitler at Munich, they should never let him get away with that, they was just asking for bad trouble." Peter Clemenza, The Godfather
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We have liberated Europe from fascism, but they will never forgive us for it
- Marshal Georgy Zhukov
Wen in dbt breath deep
"be someones angel"
quote from this little video that really stuck with me, as silly as it might sound
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"republicans are pussies" - me. thanks
The worst decisions make the best stories. - Unknown
It’s always darkest before the dawn.
How I interpret it is that when things get bad, and reach a new level of bad, that could be just what is needed for the pendulum to swing the other way, and swing extra hard.
Kind of like a Great Depression giving labour laws kind of a thing.
Gives me hope.
You can't leave the party if you can't find the door. Randall Jacobs, aka Uncle Bunky
Golf: A nice walk, ruined.
It’s a poem by Stephen Crane, but so short I’m often reminded of it in full:
A man said to the universe:
”Sir, I exist!”
“However,” replied the universe,
“The fact has not created in me
A sense of obligation.”
It sounds nihilistic, but it’s somehow calming whenever I start to feel like I’ve been wronged or I’m owed a break of some sort.