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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?


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KEYWORDS: advice; father; fathersday
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To: Eagles Field; All

You don’t have any sense unail you’re 30, and if you don’t have any by then you never will.


201 posted on 06/18/2017 4:34:34 PM PDT by Hardastarboard (Three most annoying words on the internet - "Watch the Video")
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To: Mollypitcher1
“When your head and your heart are in conflict, follow your heart.”

That may be the secret to contentment, but not to happiness.

202 posted on 06/18/2017 4:40:00 PM PDT by publius911 (Less Tweets More Golf! it works!!!)
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To: Eagles Field

crickets


203 posted on 06/18/2017 4:43:14 PM PDT by TheNext (SLOW FUND Wall = Trump 2020 Trump Jr 2024 Eric 2032)
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To: Eagles Field

Not advice, per se, but my father was fond of observing that ‘the road to hell is paved with good intentions’.


204 posted on 06/18/2017 4:45:15 PM PDT by pluvmantelo (We Americans like dogs & music. If you don't then stay out.)
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To: Eagles Field

Do what you think is right, and stand by your decision.


205 posted on 06/18/2017 4:46:56 PM PDT by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: Captain Peter Blood

My mom and dad have been gone for over 20 years. I still miss them as much as the day they died; many things remind me of them.

You never get over it. You learn to live with it but never get over it.


206 posted on 06/18/2017 4:48:43 PM PDT by Tammy8 (Please be a regular supporter of Free Republic !)
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To: Eagles Field

“Always cut with the grain’’.


207 posted on 06/18/2017 4:49:56 PM PDT by jmacusa (Dad may be in charge but mom knows whats going on.)
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To: publius911

3. “With your 40 hours a week, keep a roof over your head, the lights in the kitchen on, the food on the table, and clothes on your back, before you buy a magazine or a paperback book.”
The only advice that reveals the character flaw of the advice giver. The belittling of literacy as a noble human trait. Impossible to explain this item as rational.
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I consider this item extremely rational. The father is advising to assure the necessities of life before indulging in relaxation and unnecessary things. I imagine his reference to “paperback book” was a reference to “dime novels” otherwise known as pulp fiction. These were not particularly “educational.”


208 posted on 06/18/2017 4:52:42 PM PDT by Mollypitcher1 (I have not yet begun to fight....John Paul Jones)
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To: Eagles Field

To be a man you must have honor and courage. Other things are nice, but without honor and courage you are not a man.


209 posted on 06/18/2017 4:55:00 PM PDT by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: Tennessee Conservative

My husband told our kids when they finished high school they had to go to college, get a job, or join the military. He started telling them that when they were too little to know what it meant. They are all productive citizens.


210 posted on 06/18/2017 4:56:18 PM PDT by Tammy8 (Please be a regular supporter of Free Republic !)
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To: Tammy8

You are right. My Mother died 37 years ago from cancer and I miss her everyday also.


211 posted on 06/18/2017 5:02:48 PM PDT by Captain Peter Blood
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To: Eagles Field

Go to college and get an engineering degree was his best advice.

my dad sold industrial chemicals made by a small specialty chemical company in Chattanooga, TN to textile and carpet mills throughout SC/NC/VA/GA in the 60’s-80’s. When I was about ten I traveled with him for about a week and got tours of the mills that he called on.

This was during the era of Norma Rae, which BTW, was not an exaggeration of the mill conditions and the way the mill workers were treated by the mill owners. He told me I’d end up in the cotton mills if I didn’t go to college. Seeing several cotton mills up close and personal made a REALLY BIG impression at ten years old.

From then on, I was on track to go to college and get an engineering degree. (I ended up with two computer science degrees instead, but pretty much the same difference.)


212 posted on 06/18/2017 5:03:36 PM PDT by catnipman ( Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: Eagles Field

“Next time use the G*dd*mn things.” After my girfiend had her period after we thought she was pregnant.

My dad was an uncouth ass.


213 posted on 06/18/2017 5:06:31 PM PDT by sleddogs
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To: publius911

I beg to disagree. What my father was telling me was that instinct often sees past the “obvious,” to trust my inner feelings over the outward appearances that seemed to be just fine. Many times in my life I have followed that advice and he was right.
There are many “degrees” of happiness, just as there are many degrees of success. I have been blessed in both largely due to the wise counsel of both my parents when I was young and their insistence that I always think for myself.


214 posted on 06/18/2017 5:08:48 PM PDT by Mollypitcher1 (I have not yet begun to fight....John Paul Jones)
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To: Eagles Field

“If you smoke a cigarette I’ll beat the he’ll out of you.”

“Don’t point that gun at anything you don’t mean to shoot, and keep your damn finger off the trigger.”


215 posted on 06/18/2017 5:10:42 PM PDT by OKSooner (Never take a known wise-ass to the shooting range.)
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To: Eagles Field

“It’s better to spend money on quality food than on doctor bills.” (and this was in the 60’s and 70’s!)


216 posted on 06/18/2017 5:21:44 PM PDT by catnipman ( Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: catnipman
Study Finds Every Style Of Parenting Produces Disturbed, Miserable Adults
217 posted on 06/18/2017 5:29:37 PM PDT by null and void ( If you thought National Socialism (Nazism) was bad, wait until you see Global Socialism!)
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To: Eagles Field

Some days you’re down, some days you’re up.....


218 posted on 06/18/2017 5:32:04 PM PDT by Intolerant in NJ
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To: Eagles Field

“If you’re explaining, you’re losing.”


219 posted on 06/18/2017 5:38:22 PM PDT by pinkandgreenmom
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To: blueunicorn6

I learned that one the hard way


220 posted on 06/18/2017 5:39:12 PM PDT by Keyhopper (Indians had bad immigration laws)
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