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Spontaneity is just accessing a block of well understood and trained
material without thinking

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory
If your opponent is fast you must be faster or smarter.
A good friend will fit you like ring to finger.
There are two ways to surmount obstacles, jump over them or plow through them.
Money is like sex, you can’t have too much.
Don’t compare your life to others. You have no idea what their journey is all about
Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory
Never look back. The obstacles are all ahead.
The greatest of faults is to be conscious of none.
You will never change your life until you change something you do every day.
There's nothing that cleanses your soul like getting the hell kicked out of you.
You can only become accomplished at something you truly love.
The hardest thing in life is knowing which bridges to cross, and which bridges to burn.
The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous[FONT=&quot][/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]If injury must be done to a man, let it be severe enough that his vengeance need not be feared.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Nice guys finish last, but we get to sleep in[FONT=&quot][/FONT][/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Believe in the future but, read the fine print (if only Congress did this...)[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Anger is a prelude to courage. [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Who begins too much accomplishes little[/FONT]
 

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"A friend will help you move, a real friend will help you move bodies." - unknown

"We are all of us in the gutter, some of us looking at the stars."
- Alexander Pope.

"Pain is weakness leaving the body."
- Full Metal Jacket

"Hallo! My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die!" - The Princess Bride.
 

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Speed is fine, accuracy is final - Wyatt Earp

I... am not left-handed. - Inigo Montoya (Princess Bride...awesome movie)

Love deeply and passionately. You might get hurt but, it is the only way to live life completely. - unknown

You don't have to blow out anothers candle to make yours shine bright - unknown

Live a good, honorable life. Then when you get older and think back, you'll enjoy it a second time. - Dali Lama
 
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Gravity cannot be held responsible for people falling in love - Albert Einstein (anecdotally)

Self awareness is not just a bunch of amino acids bumping together. - Jubal Harshaw (Robert Heinlein)

Every person, all the events of your life, are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you. - Richard Bach
 

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Don't pet sweaty things, or sweat petty things.

The early worm gets eaten, so sleep late.

Whoever said "No pain, no gain" sure wasn't kidding!

I'm not a fan of facts. Facts tend to change, unlike my opinions, which never change. No matter what the facts are.

He feels no pain. I'm sorry, my English isn't so good. He feels only pain.
 

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You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence. - Charles Austin Beard

With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion. - Steven Weinberg

Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it. - Mark Twain

Honesty may be the best policy, but it's important to remember that apparently, by elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy. - George Carlin

I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously. - Douglas Adams

Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he'll buy a funny hat. Talk to a hungry man about fish, and you're a consultant. - Scott Adams
 
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Honesty may well be the best policy, but, it won't make you popular, sometimes, those jeans do make your *** look fat. Me 2009
 
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When in a fight, hit first, hit hard, hit often
 

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There are two big forces at work, external and internal. We have very little control over external forces such as tornadoes, earthquakes, floods, disasters, illness and pain. What really matters is the internal force. How do I respond to those disasters? Over that I have complete control.
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If you've managed to let yourself become surrounded by idiots, how smart are you?

That which does not kill us, makes us stranger.

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro. - Hunter S. Thompson.

Loseth not thine airspeed, lest the ground rise up and smite thee.

It gets darkest just before the light goes completely out. - Firesign Theatre.

I think we're all bozos on this bus. - Firesign Theatre.

Think of hummingbirds as the flying penises of flowers.

If you can read this, you're in range. - USMC Sniper's saying.

Semper Ubi Sub Ubi (Always wear underwear).

Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.

Good, bad, *I'm* the guy with the gun! - Ash, from Army of Darkness.

I didn't claw my way to the top of the food chain to eat vegetables!

Did you exchange a walk-on part in the war for a leading role in a cage? - Pink Floyd "Shine on You Crazy Diamond"

All men have the right to dig their own graves, and I have the right to sell them the shovels.

When I die, I want to go peacefully in my sleep like my father did, not screaming in terror like his passengers.

Never judge a man till you have walked a mile in his shoes, 'cuz by then, he's a mile away, you've got his shoes. - Deep Thoughts, by Jack Handy.

The rain, it raineth on the Just and the Unjust fella. But chiefly on the Just because the Unjust steals the Just's umbrella.

Never trust a cop with a rubber glove.

Coitus ergo sum.

We are not in the Eighth dimension, we are over New Jersey. Hope is not lost. - Buckaroo Banzai.

Fight crime. Shoot back.

Karate is a lot like ballet, except that they don't dance, there isn't any music, and they hit each other.

Do not summon a demon you cannot put down.

Bad things come to those who wait too.

The quickest way to a man's heart is through his ribcage.

Liberals don't believe they deserve anything they own; conservatives think they're entitled to everything they've stolen.

Being good at being stupid doesn't count.

Anything not nailed down is mine. Anything I can pry loose is not nailed down.

Most people are auditioning to become chalk outlines, they just don't know it.
 

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Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber. - Plato

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school. - Albert Einstein

Ours is the "land of the free" nobody denies that nobody challenges it. (Maybe it is because we won't let other people testify.) - Mark Twain

Ever notice that anyone going slower than you is an idiot, but going faster is a maniac? - George Carlin

He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met. - Abraham Lincoln

Quotes are nothing but inspiration for the uninspired. - Richard Kemph

D'oh! - Homer Simpson
 

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IT'S CLOBBERIN' TIME! - The Thing
Christmas! - Luke Cage
Odin's beard! - Thor
*snikt* - Wolverine
'Nuff said. - Stan Lee
Zoicks! - Shaggy
 

Bill Mattocks

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IT'S CLOBBERIN' TIME! - The Thing
Christmas! - Luke Cage
Odin's beard! - Thor
*snikt* - Wolverine
'Nuff said. - Stan Lee
Zoicks! - Shaggy

"I'm the best there is at what I do; and what I do ain't pretty."
- Wolverine
 

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