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What is the best advice you've ever received?

Posted on 05/24/2014 9:32:56 PM PDT by MNDude

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To: fwdude

...together with “If it’s work doing, it’s worth doing right.” (another from Dear Old Dad)


21 posted on 05/24/2014 9:41:54 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: MNDude

Work smart, not hard.


22 posted on 05/24/2014 9:41:54 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (Support Free Republic.)
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To: MNDude

Right before the dot-com bust, I was doing contract programming. A friend told me he thought the bottom was about to drop out and advised me to take a full time job somewhere stable.

Maybe it was providence, or maybe just luck, but a few days later a friend and former coworker called me to tell me his company was forming a new team, and would I be interested. I took the job, which turned out to be a great thing in and of itself, and was happy I was there when the bottom fell out do the tech job market.


23 posted on 05/24/2014 9:42:18 PM PDT by Scutter
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To: All

Stop doing that or you’ll go blind!


24 posted on 05/24/2014 9:42:42 PM PDT by VerySadAmerican
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To: MNDude
In business: It is better to be in the meetings, than to take messages for those who are in the meetings.

In life: You can hide things from a thief, but you can never trust a liar.

25 posted on 05/24/2014 9:43:06 PM PDT by NautiNurse (Obama sends U.S. Marines to pick up his dog & basketballs. Benghazi? Nope.)
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To: Political Junkie Too

‘Resist we Much’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CifYWxJXaI


26 posted on 05/24/2014 9:43:07 PM PDT by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
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To: MNDude

Eigth grade teacher wrote a message in my graduation remembrance book. “Lofty goals can be imagined but never reached if your aim is low.”


27 posted on 05/24/2014 9:44:03 PM PDT by allendale
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To: MNDude

When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
Ernest Hemingway


28 posted on 05/24/2014 9:44:40 PM PDT by struggle
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To: eastforker

“Avoid the Brown Acid...repeat...avoid the Brown Acid”


29 posted on 05/24/2014 9:44:41 PM PDT by DJlaysitup
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To: MNDude

Better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt.


30 posted on 05/24/2014 9:46:28 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: MNDude

From Dad, eh?

“Never argue with a man holding a loaded machine gun.”

Long story went with wit about gambling in a war zone....still, darn good advice.


31 posted on 05/24/2014 9:47:47 PM PDT by ASOC (What are you doing now that Mexico has become OUR Chechnya?)
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To: MNDude

Your concious and considered choices will almost always result in your intended outcome.

Your choices of abdication or not carefully considered are rarely going to end well.

Consider, choose wisely and guard closely your thoughts, that they may be guided by principle and moored by rules silent that always inform as to your path, so they guide you to your destinations.

Dad.


32 posted on 05/24/2014 9:48:02 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
"Also “You catch more flies with honey than vinegar.”"

You catch even more with manure. ;)

33 posted on 05/24/2014 9:48:23 PM PDT by Wyrd bið ful aræd (Pope Calvin the 1st, defacto Leader of the FR Calvinist Protestant Brigades)
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To: Secret Agent Man

Keep your feet and knees together.


34 posted on 05/24/2014 9:48:59 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: MNDude

Do not look directly into the sun.


35 posted on 05/24/2014 9:49:21 PM PDT by P-Marlowe (There can be no Victory without a fight and no battle without wounds)
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To: MNDude

If you want smart kids, marry a smart woman.


36 posted on 05/24/2014 9:52:34 PM PDT by proudpapa (Scott Walker - 2016)
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To: MNDude

If your airplane is going to crash FLY IT UNTIL IT STOPS!

That probably saved my life and the lives of 5 passangers.


37 posted on 05/24/2014 9:54:15 PM PDT by dalereed
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To: MNDude

Keep your friends close, but your enemies even closer.


38 posted on 05/24/2014 9:55:46 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: ken5050

Reason #5 Why Men Die Young.
39 posted on 05/24/2014 9:56:12 PM PDT by rlmorel ("A nation, despicable by its weakness, forfeits even the privilege of being neutral." A. Hamilton)
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