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What Was the Best Advice Your Father Ever Gave You?

Posted on 06/18/2017 12:42:24 PM PDT by Eagles Field

And why?


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Education; Military/Veterans; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: advice; father; fathersday
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1 posted on 06/18/2017 12:42:24 PM PDT by Eagles Field
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To: Eagles Field

“Don’t talk to your mother like she’s one of your Soldiers.”


2 posted on 06/18/2017 12:44:05 PM PDT by Dr. Pritchett
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To: Eagles Field

Not to marry the “first” wife. (Obviously, I didn’t listen.)


3 posted on 06/18/2017 12:44:45 PM PDT by Perseverando (For Progressives, Islamonazis & other Totalitarians: It's all about PEOPLE CONTROL!)
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To: Eagles Field

Never cut toward yourself.

Best advise I ever got: There's no such thing as a free lunch.


4 posted on 06/18/2017 12:44:49 PM PDT by 867V309 (Lock Her Up)
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To: Eagles Field

“Marry your gal and join the Air Force.”


5 posted on 06/18/2017 12:45:36 PM PDT by DouglasKC
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To: Eagles Field

“Don’t dream about what you want to do - go out and do it!”

And, when he gave me a quarter (a lot of money for a little kid in those days): “Don’t spend it all in one place.”


6 posted on 06/18/2017 12:46:49 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Eagles Field

“Nobody cares about you, or what you think.”

Why? He was right, that’s why.

8O)


7 posted on 06/18/2017 12:47:13 PM PDT by heterosupremacist (Domine Iesu Christe, Filius Dei, miserere me peccatorem!)
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To: Eagles Field

Learn to read.


8 posted on 06/18/2017 12:47:14 PM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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To: Eagles Field

When I got divorced, my dad told me, “Women, if we couldn’t **** em, we’d throw rocks at them.”


9 posted on 06/18/2017 12:47:57 PM PDT by occamrzr06
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To: Eagles Field

Don’t vote Democrat. They’re evil.


10 posted on 06/18/2017 12:49:04 PM PDT by rickomatic
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To: Eagles Field

my dad was a WW2 combat vet.
Didn’t talk serious much.
His therapist was Jack Daniels.
“Men stand when they drink”.


11 posted on 06/18/2017 12:49:19 PM PDT by stylin19a
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To: Eagles Field
"NEVER listen to the critics."

Only thing he was right about...

12 posted on 06/18/2017 12:49:52 PM PDT by StAnDeliver (Prosecute the win. Run up the score.)
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To: Eagles Field

If you keep trying and never give up you do not always win but if you quit you lose every time.


13 posted on 06/18/2017 12:50:10 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Eagles Field

“Alan you really need to check out this Free Republic website they does seem to be more people like us out there “


14 posted on 06/18/2017 12:50:16 PM PDT by al baby (May the Forceps be with you Hi Mom Its a Joke friends)
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To: Eagles Field

If you can’t afford to pay cash for something, you can’t afford it. Lone exception: house.


15 posted on 06/18/2017 12:50:20 PM PDT by Mr. Mojo
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To: Eagles Field

“Never get married.”


16 posted on 06/18/2017 12:51:24 PM PDT by SunTzuWu
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To: Eagles Field

Walk fast and look mad and nobody will bother you.


17 posted on 06/18/2017 12:51:43 PM PDT by Zuse (I am disrupted! I am offended! I am insulted! I am outraged!)
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To: Dr. Pritchett
1. The world doesn't owe you a living.

2. No such thing as a free lunch.

If it seems to good to be true, it is.

You only get out of life what you put into it.

Go slow when you vacuum!!!

18 posted on 06/18/2017 12:51:49 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Eagles Field

“Nobody owes you a living, so shut up and get back to work”

I was 13 Years Old and had to work at my Father’s Gas Station on Saturdays to earn my “allowance”. I worked 7 to 7, or 7 to 10 if my Older Brother couldn’t give me a ride home. No, Child Labor Laws were never discussed. LOL

I was whining to a guy that worked for my Father because all my Friends were going Camping and I couldn’t go with them because I had to work.

My Father walked up behind me while I was pontificating the depths of my despair and I didn’t realize he was there until the guy I was talking to started looking over my shoulder with a weird look on his face...

That one comment alone probably sealed my fate as being a Conservative rather than a Liberal.


19 posted on 06/18/2017 12:51:57 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative ( Democracy, two Wolves and one Sheep deciding what's for Dinner.)
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To: Eagles Field

“Stop it!”

Because I was doing something stupid.


20 posted on 06/18/2017 12:52:27 PM PDT by Fester Chugabrew (Lock. Them. Up.)
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